Earth systems engineering and management
NaturePublished 18 January 2001Open access
Stephen H. Schneider
Citations115
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score18.29
SNIP10.16
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Abstract
Imagine that we could let the world's economy continue to grow, bring the disadvantaged classes up from poverty and at the same time not threaten the atmosphere or global ecosystems with unprecedented build-up of greenhouse gases and the projected climatic risks of such growth. Earth systems engineering and management may just be such a panacea, some have suggested. But could we anticipate the costs or ever truly predict the consequences?
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