International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies : 42nd session ..., "E. Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, 19-24 August 2009 / edited by R. Ragaini
1. OPENING SESSION; 2. INFORMATION SECURITY FOCUS: CYBER CONFLICTS AND CYBER STABILITY--FINDING A PATH TO CYBER PEACE; 3. POLLUTION FOCUS: INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH AND CHEMICAL INNOVATION; 4. ENERGY & CLIMATE FOCUS: ESSENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR MODERATING CLIMATE CHANGE AND IMPROVING ENERGY SECURITY; 5. CLIMATE FOCUS: GLOBAL WARMING AND GREENHOUSE GASES; 6. ENERGY, CLIMATE, POLLUTION AND LIMITS OF DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES AND STRATEGIES IN CHINA FOR MEETING THE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY PREDICAMENT IN A GREENHOUSE CONSTRAINED SOC
7. CLIMATE & DATA FOCUS: SIGNIFICANT CLIMATE UNCERTAINTIES ADDRESSED BY SATELLITES8. CLIMATE & CLOUDS FOCUS: SENSITIVITY OF CLIMATE TO ADDITIONAL CO2 AS INDICATED BY WATER CYCLE FEEDBACK ISSUES; 9. CLIMATE WITHOUT COMPUTER SIMULATION F 0 C US: MA THEMA TICS, PHYSICS, AND CLIMATE; 10. CLIMATE AND HEALTH FOCUS: WINDBLOWN DUST; 11. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOCUS: WMD PROLIFERATION--ENERGY OF THE FUTURE--MATHEMATICS & DEMOCRACY; 12. WFS GENERAL MEETING PMP REPORTS--DEBATE AND CONCLUSIONS; 13. INFORMATION SECURITY PANEL MEETING; 14. LIMITS OF DEVELOPMENT PANEL MEETING
15. MITIGATION OF TERRORIST ATTACKS MEETING16. ENERGY PANEL MEETING; 17. GREEN CHEMISTRY WORKSHOP; 18. AIDS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES; 19. SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS; 20. ETTORE MAJORANA ERICE SCIENCE FOR PEACE PRIZE-- SCIENTIFIC SESSION Why Science is Needed for the Culture of the Third Millennium
Summary
The Erice International Seminars are multidisciplinary seminars attended by over 100 eminent participants from all fields of Science. Each year, a few scientific issues are selected and experts are invited to present contrasting views during the plenary multidisciplinary sessions of the Seminar, followed by general debates. These sessions offer a unique opportunity for specialists to enlarge their fields of vision by being confronted to the ideas and suggestions from high level scientists in complementary domains of science. Associated workshops allow the experts to further refine and process
