28 November 2012 Vienna
OeAW Kerner von Marilaun Lecture: Pavel Kabat
Pavel Kabat, IIASA Director & CEO will speak as part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Kerner von Marilaun lecture series, about our changing planet and human interactions with the Earth.
Description
Is the human footprint on the Earth significant in terms of the functioning of the entire Earth system, and on very long time scales of Earth system evolution? How will the Earth system keep in pace with the human action in the future? Several distinguished and world leading scholars, among them Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen, proposed to designate the past two or three centuries as new geological epoch – “the Anthropocene”.
This lecture will review our current understanding of the role of human interactions with the Earth system, and it will reveal some examples of unexpected feedbacks which may occur and significantly affect the human development in the 21st century.
Date 28.11.2012
Location Festsaal der ÖAW Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2 1010 Wien
Time 18:15
More Information: Austrian Academy of Sciences Web site.
The Austrian Academy of Sciences serves as the Austrian National Member Organization of IIASA.
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