The Issue
The Earth is facing global threats to a point never experienced before. Will we, as human beings, be able to react in time to these challenges and revert these processes? How habitable will the Earth be in the coming decades? A stimulating discussion on the nature of earth as a habitable system will close the GCTE/LUCC conference held in Barcelona, March 14-18, 1998.
The Science
Practica Inforrmation
These ideas will be presented on Day 6 (March 18) of the conference at 14:00 in the session 3 "The Nature of Earth as a Habitable System: Robust or Fragile?". It will be chaired by B. Walker, CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology, Canberra, Australia.
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