Global Sustainability

PrefaceKey Note Address (His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal)History and Mandate of Sustainability: From Local Forestry to Global Policy (Gabriele Weber-Blaschke, Reinhard Mosandl, and Martin Faulstich)Sustainable Development: Exploring the Cross-Cultural Dimension (Ortwin Renn)Sustainable Development and Cultural Diversity (Hartmann Liebetruth)Technological Progress in Different Cultures and Periods: Historical Evolution Projected into the Future (Raoul Weiler)Views of Sustainability: Elements of a Synthesis (Dimitris Kyriakou)A New Way of Thinking about Sustainability, Risk and Environmental Decision-Making (William E. Kastenberg, Gloria Hauser-Kastenberg, and David Norris)Humility and Establishing the Sustainable Environment (Edward D. Schroeder)Conflicts and Conflict-solving as Chances to make the Concept of Sustainable Development work (Armin Grunwald)Sustainability through Science-Technology-Society Education (David Devraj Kumar)Sustainability and Consumption of Raw Materials in Germany (Werner Schenkel)Sustainability, Culture and Regional Scales: Some Remarks from Human Geography (Horst Kopp)Sustainable Development in Asia: Traditional Ideas and Irreversible Processes (Dietmar Rothermund)Sustainability of Development and Valuation of Non-renewable Resources: An Analysis in the Context of Local Cultures (Michael von Hauff, Amitabh Kundu)Sustainability in Latin American Countries: Challenge and Opportunities for Argentina (Monica Renner)On the Roles Engineers May Play in the Attempt to Meet Basic Demands of Man and Nature (Peter A. Wilderer, Mirka C. Wilderer)Integrating Cultural Aspects in the Implementation of Large Water Projects (Martin Grambow)Sustainability from an Entrepreneurial Point of View seen from the Particular Standpoint of a Company Active in the Water Industry (Hans G. Huber)Synthesis (Peter A. Wilderer, Edward D. Schroeder, and Josef Bugl)

Professor Peter A. Wilderer is in charge of the Institute an Advanced Studies on Sustainability, funded by the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He teaches at the German Institute of Science and Technology, Singapore, in Industrial Ecology and Industrial Chemistry. Besides he serves as honorary professor at the Advanced Wastewater Management Center of the University of Queensland, Australia. In 2003, he became the first German recipient of the Stockholm Water Prize, internationally the highest award in the field of water and environment. He has authored and co-authored over 300 scientific publications.

Professor Edward D. Schroeder is a member of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of California, Davis. He has authored or co-authored over 120 papers and two textbooks on various aspects of environmental engineering.

Professor Horst Kopp is working at the Institute for Geography at the Friederich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He is co-editor of The Arab World Geographer.

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"The groundbreaking book focuses on cultural diversity as the key to sustainability development in the context of science and engineering, and provides multidisciplinary information about the changing world."Qualityworld, Institute of Quality Assurance, February 2005Book Presentations: Sustainability, Environmental Science and Pollution Research ESPR, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2005"... 36 scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs from 4 continents and 12 countries .... The editors were successful to bring 25 of those participants and their extremely different expertise and projects together under the common focus of the impact of local cultures. .... An important value of this book are the examples from different regions of the world, which show the complexity of the issue."Dr. Steffi Richter, Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt), Dessau, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2005, Vol. 12, No. 3"An important value of this book are the examples from different regions of the world, which show the complexity of the issue."Dr. rer. nat. Steffi Richter, ESPR, 12 (3) 2005