List of Content
Modelling and Simulating the Climate Change
Climate change simulations with a fully coupled
ocean-troposphere-
stratosphere model 9
H. Huebener, T. Spangehl, S. Schimanke, F. Niehörster, U. Cubasch,
Institute of Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Climate Policy and Climate Impact Research
Climate policy between control mechanisms and
self-organization:
Futureable organizational forms beyond the nation state? 19
K. Pilcher, University of Salzburg, Austria
Visualization of Biosphere Changes in the Context of
Climate Change 29
T. Nocke, U. Heyder, S. Petri, K. Vohland, M. Wrobel, W. Lucht,
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Impact of Artificial Life on Climate Change 37
R.E. Zimmermann, University of Applied Sciences Munich, Germany
Environmental Data, Information, Knowledge and Desaster
Management
Managing Metadata in a Collaborative Earth System
Research Environment 47
C. Rachimow, S. Petri, M. Flechsig, Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact
Research, Germany
A Platform for Collaborative Danger Defense 55
F. Fuchs-Kittowski, D. Faust, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany
An ontology based framework for environment information
system 69
S. Yang, College of Educational Information Technology, South China
Normal University Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, P.R.China
IT-Applications I
Carbon Footprinting of products – enabling the
ecological supply chain
of the future 77
R. Barling, V. Wohlgemuth, FHTW, University of Applied Sciences,
Berlin, Germany
IT-Applications II
Development of a Software Assistant supporting the CO2
Emission
Trading System 87
C. Schmitz, B. Page, A. Rolf, University of Hamburg, Germany
IT Support of International Collective Scientific
Research to Limit the
Human-induced Climate Change - The Impact of Computer (-Networks)
on the Organization of Science and the Culture of Scientific Work 107
K. Fuchs-Kittowski, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany
Scientific Data Management and Data Access
The PIK approach towards intuitive and integrated
access to
heterogeneous scientific data 133
M. Wrobel, M. Flechsig, A. Glauer, C. Rachimow, Potsdam Institute
for Climate Impact Research, Germany
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In present times, climate change is driven by natural
as well as by man-made influences in a global scale. That means, the
future development of climate and society will be an interactive one,
characterized by coupling of two highly complex and strongly non-linear
systems. The development of satellite observation and monitoring systems
on the one hand and of information technology on the other hand may
enable the mankind to overcome challenges of a – may be rapid - climate
change. The strategy of all social systems must be focussed on “avoiding
the unmanageable and managing the unavoidable” as emphasized in a report
prepared in 2007 by an expert group on climate change for the United
Nations Commission on sustainable development.
Thus, ICT is a part of the response management system by providing
meaningful feedback loops and related regulatory and control systems. In
some cases ICT can be a direct part of the solution by providing remote
communications as a substitute for people movement and thus reducing the
carbon foot print.
The international conference on IT and climate change was held at the
FHTW Berlin, university of applied sciences, in Berlin on September
25/26 2008. The conference brought together academics, researchers,
developers, and practitioners who were interested in theoretical and/or
applied aspects of environmental informatics and climate change. It
served as a platform for networking, exchange of research ideas,
practical applications and best practices. Authors were invited to
submit original and unpublished work on all aspects of ICT to combat the
climate change, covering topics from environmental informatics and the
climate change, potentials of ICT for limitation and mitigation of the
human induced climate change, environmental data, information and
knowledge management.
The conference was supported by the Leibniz Society of Sciences at
Berlin, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the
International Society of Environmental Protection (ISEP), the German
Society of Cybernetics and the FHTW Berlin, university of applied
sciences, study program of industrial environmental informatics. We
think, that the conference lead to a fruitful discussion of the above
mentioned topics and gave some helpful suggestions for further work.
Volker Wohlgemuth, FHTW Berlin,
University of Applied Sciences
Karl-Heinz Bernhardt, Leibniz-Society of Sciences
at Berlin
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