General Assembly 2008
Anthropocene Age: Perils and Prospects for the 21st Century
(17-19 October 2008; Hyderabad, India)
Abstracts, Presentations and Papers
(M = Moderator/Chairperson)
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Defining the Anthropocene Epoch |
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1. Walter Anderson |
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2. Richard Benedick |
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3. Sesh Velamoor (M) |
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Dealing with Climate Change: Progress & Stasis |
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1. Jose Furtado (M) |
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2. Akio Morishima |
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3. J. Srinivasan |
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Change & Change Agents |
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1. Y.S. Rajan |
Change & Change Agents |
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Asia's Role in World Leadership |
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1. Akio Morishima (M) |
Asian Role in Global Climate Policy |
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2. Susantha Goonatilake |
The Shift to Asia - Civilisational Implications |
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3. Thomas Rawski |
China's Long Boom |
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Implications of Climate Change |
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1. Robert Berg (M) |
Implications for Governance arising from Climate Change |
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2. Akio Morishima |
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3. Jose Cordeiro |
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4. John Cox |
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Development and Environment |
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1. Jeffrey Schwartz (M) |
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2. Garry Jacobs |
Development & Environment - Myths & Realities |
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3. Ashok Natarajan |
America as Evolutionary Pioneer |
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4. Ana Stavljenic Rukavina |
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5. Ivo Slaus - unable to attend |
Development and Environment - We Need a Box of New Tools |
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1. Jeffrey Schwartz (M) |
Human Evolution: A case of the Emperor's clothes |
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2. Garry Jacobs |
Human Mind, Science & Rationality |
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3. Krunoslav Pisk |
Limits to rationality and physical theories |
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4. Vijaya Kumar |
Limits of rationality |
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5. Ivo Slaus - unable to attend |
Limits to rationality |
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An Inclusive Concept of Global Security |
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1. Jonathan Granoff (M) |
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2. S D Muni |
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3. Arvind Gupta |
Global Security and the Role of Ethics and Values |
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4. Vinod Patney |
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1. Y S Rajan |
Security and Space. A Quasi-Historical Perspective |
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2. Jonathan Granoff |
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3. Vinod Patney |
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4. U R Rao |
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5. Manpreet Sethi |
Security of the Ultimate High Ground - Preventing Arms Race in Outer Space |
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1. Jonathan Granoff (M) |
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2. Manpreet Sethi |
Nuclear Disarmament: From Roadblocks to Milestones |
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3. Mladen Stanicic |
Current Economic And Geopolitical Trends And Challenges |
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4. Ivo slaus - unable to attend |
There Is No Global Security Without Nuclear Disarmament |
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Was Man Created Before Mother Earth? |
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1. Amareshwar Galla |
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Earth System Engg: The State of Art |
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1. Walter Anderson |
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2. Sarah Gaines |
Engineering the Biosphere |
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3. Raoul Weiler (M) |
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Darwinism: Dead Wrong |
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1. Jeffrey Schwartz (M) |
Evolution ≠ Adaptation - Writ Large |
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2. Bruno Maresca |
Sudden Origin -The missing role of environment in Darwin's theory of Evolution |
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3. Sesh Velamoor (M) |
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Biotechnology in the Anthropocene |
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1. Pushpa Bhargava (M) |
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2. Geoffrey Hamer |
Methanotrophy: From the environment to industry and back |
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3. Imran Sidiqi |
Asexual Seed Formation in Plants |
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4. Ramesh Sonti |
Biotechnology in crop improvement |
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Development Theory - Dynamics of Social Change |
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1. Ashok Natarajan (M) |
Dynamics of Social Change |
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2. Garry Jacobs |
Ecology and Development Theory |
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3. Anna Maria Sandi |
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4. Ivo Slaus - unable to attend |
From Ioannis Kapodistrias and Altiero Spinelli to EU - Is It a Success? How Well Will It Face the Challenges of the Future |
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How & Why we govern evolution |
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1. Walter Anderson (M) |
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2. Jose Cordeiro |
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3. John Cox |
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International Justice: Frontier Issues |
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1. Ivo Josipovic |
International Justice: Remedy Against The War As The Biggest Anthropocene Peril Or Illusion? |
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2. Winston Nagan |
Love, Hate and the Human Rights Boundaries of the Law |
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Asian Cities |
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1. Tay Kheng Soon |
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2. Susantha Goonatilake |
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3. Ana Maria Sandi |
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Money & Global Governance: Financing Sustainable Development |
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1. Garry Jacobs (M) |
Global Financial Crisis & a Single World Currency |
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2. Abhijit Sen Gupta |
Asian Economic Integration through Adoption of an Asian Currency Unit |
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3. Bernard Lietaer - Unable to attend |
Options for Managing Systemic Bank Crises |
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Communicating Science: The Role of Arts and Media |
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1. Geeta Narayanan |
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2. Sharada Srinivasan |
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3. Jon Palfreman |
Cooling Report about a Warming Planet |
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4. Anjum Babu Khan |
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The Demographic Transition - session cancelled |
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1. Orio Giarini - unable to attend |
Demographic transition |
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2. Asim Kujak - unable to attend |
Population trends |
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Ethics and Policies for Sustainable Futures – Jose Furtado / Anthony Judge (M) |
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Jose Furtado |
Introductory Remarks |
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Susantha Goonatilake |
Possible Bio Ethics Reconstructed Humans Presentation by Susantha Goonatilake |
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Zakri A Hamid |
Human Reproductive Cloning |
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Orio Giarini - Unable to attend |
The Remaking of Economics: An Ethical Issue - Putting the Right Questions Today |
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Jose Furtado |
The Challenge for New Forms of Social Capital: Knowledge, Innovation, and Stakeholder Alliances |
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UR Rao |
Economics, Energy and Food Security for the World |
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Ana Maria Sandi |
Ethical challenges and responsible policies in |
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R.Mashelkar |
Gandhian Engineering |
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N'Dri Assie-Lumumba |
Higher Knowledge and Global Good |
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Johan Hattingh |
Responding to a Perfect Moral Storm? What Kind of Ethics will it Require in an Era of Human Induced Global Warming and Climate Change? |
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Anthony Judge |
Topology of Valuing, Dynamics of Collective Engagement with Polyhedral Value Configurations |
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Winston Nagan |
Legal Culture Confronts Science in Search of a New Paradigm of Humane Governance |
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