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De complexitate mundi – What a complexful world
| العنوان: | De complexitate mundi – What a complexful world |
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| المؤلفون: | Fracassi, Umberto |
| المساهمون: | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione Roma1, Roma, Italia |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | Earth-Prints (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Geosphere-biosphere feedback, Multi-hazards, Cascading effects, Earth's energy budget, Complex behaviours of processes, Hazard communication, Geosciences in the complex interplay among hazards in contemporary societies |
| الوصف: | Bare twenty years into the XXI century – and what a treat. Damaging earthquakes with regional impact, climate extremes disrupting weather cycles, water shortages in high-income regions, scarcer (and costlier) energy and mineral resources, rising population. Add a slice of global geopolitical instabilities – even where one would never expect to report them from. And, well, why not: a novel pathogen, so little yet so commanding that the world is still vying with it. Natural hazards and anthropogenic factors interact in multiple ways and across various scales, close or afar, in time and space. They interweave a web of complexities that can appear deceitful, capricious, or otherwise overwhelming to the citizens of contemporary societies – even in statistically affluent and educated ones. There comes the role of geosciences, from paleontology to high-atmosphere physics, from energy to oceanography, from the solid to the not-so-solid earth. There comes their transformative, instrumental task – as new and as pressing as ever. Geosciences are not (and will not) what they used to be, bound as they are to glean lessons learned from the past to provide insight into the future. Geoscientists were once thought to study ancient rocks, fiddle with very slow-moving tectonic plates, and bantering about invisible earth’s features, too large, or too deep, or too far away to even imagine for us earthlings. But this is no longer the case – and maybe never has been. At the core of geosciences’ interests lies Nature, for what it is – with all its grand size, seemingly slow processes that unveil sudden effects, complex interactions among forces and bodies across distances and time. These prove to be paramount tools to probe a world perceived as inscrutable, increasingly richer in risks and poorer in resources. Therefore, tools of yesterday’s intellectual quests prove instrumental to decipher tomorrow’s societal issues, such as: - The long records of natural events (hazards) - Far-flung origins (our solar system and the universe) - ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | audio |
| اللغة: | English |
| العلاقة: | European Geosciences Union vEGU21; http://hdl.handle.net/2122/14715Test; https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/presentation/EGU21-16180Test |
| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.4718593 |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4718593Test http://hdl.handle.net/2122/14715Test https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/presentation/EGU21-16180Test |
| حقوق: | open |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.20F05CBE |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.4718593 |
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