International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies : 38th session, "E. Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, 19-24 Aug. 2007 / edited by R. Ragaini
Opening session -- Energy & climate focus: Managing climate change--introduction -- Energy & climate focus: Managing climate change--Climatology -- Energy & climate focus: Managing climate change--mitigation of greenhouse gases -- Energy & climate focus: Managing climate change--Filling the gap: geo-engineering and adaptation -- Energy & climate focus: Managing climate change--Summaries & debate -- Missile proliferation and defense focus: U.S missile defense shield -- Climate focus: Theoretical alternatives to climate modeling -- Global monitoring of the planet focus: The North Pole and life cycle nuclear energy and environmental issues -- Brain diseases focus: The crisis of losing minds, the epidemic of Alzheimer's disease in the 21st century -- Medicine and infectious diseases focus: Infectious agents and cancer -- WFS general meeting PMP reports--debate and conclusion -- Brain and behavior workshop -- Energy-climate workshop -- Infectious diseases workshop -- Information security workshop -- Limits of development workshop
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 vision of their related fields by being confronted with ideas and suggestions from high-level scientists in complementary domains of science. Associated workshops allow the experts to further refine and process the ideas evoked during the seminar. This year's topics are all actual. For instance, on climate issues we have focused on the management of a global warming and on new theoretical alternatives to climate modeling. On global monitoring of the planet, we have focused on the US missile defence shield, the energy externalities and waste disposal and the historical dive by Dr Chilingarov on the North Pole shelf. On the medical side, we have investigated the Alzheimer epidemics and the role of infectious agents in cancer
