Geocybernetics: Controlling a complex dynamical system under uncertainty

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 411-425

  Schellnhuber, H J ^a   Kropp, J ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CHANGE; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CYBERNETICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; REVIEW;

EID: 0031686854     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140050525     Document Type: Review

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