Jill Jäger
Our planet: How much more can the Earth take?
Edited by Klaus Wiegandt

Haus Publishing London, 2009
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The Earth is constantly being subjected to changes which interact in a complex way. Humans interfere massively in nature's course without being able to really calculate the long-term effects. It is vital to understand the global cycle, and this understanding provides the scientific foundation for intentionally sustainable development of our global environment.

Jill Jäger, Senior Researcher at the Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI) in Vienna, explains the interdependence of the different developments on Earth and creates an awareness about the fact that we all belong to the Earth's system. The situation on our planet is more critical than we think – but there are sound options for action.

Klaus Hahlbrock
Feeding the Planet: Environmental Protection through Sustainability
Edited by Klaus Wiegand

Haus Publishing London, 2009
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Almost a billion people all over the earth suffer from hunger and malnutrition. Many of them are starving while the world's population continues to grow dramatically. The population in the industrialized nations, whose hunger is still abundantly satisfied, must struggle with the costs of heavily subsidized overproduction of food. Still, the worldwide lack of food will also pose a threatening problem to them.

Klaus Hahlbrock, Professor of Biochemistry and former director of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, asks the central question about how the hunger problem can be solved and biodiversity can be preserved at the same time. He pleads for a more deliberate, gentle and responsible way of treating nature and ourselves.

Mojib Latif
Climate Change: The Point of No Return
Edited by Klaus Wiegandt

Haus Publishing, 2009
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There is no doubt that humans exert influence on the global climate. The emission of trace gases relevant to the climate, such as carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere leads to additional warming of the Earth's surface and the lower atmospheric layers – we speak of an "anthropogenic greenhouse effect". Due to this influence, the global climate will continue to warm up in the forthcoming decades.

Mojib Latif, climate researcher and Professor of Meteorology, shows that there is a solution to the climate problem. There is still time to act, and Latif therefore lists concrete courses for action and replies to objections of sceptics.

Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek
The Earth: Natural Resources and Human Intervention
Edited by Klaus Wiegandt

Haus Publishing London, 2009
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The high resource consumption for our wealth and prosperity is causing immense problems with our environment. A grave and unequal distribution exists: At the moment 80% of nature's consumption benefits only about 20% of mankind. More than two planet earths would be necessary in order to provide all humans with a material standard of living that is common here in the West.

Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek, Professor of Chemistry and President of the Factor 10 Institute in France, demands a radical increase in resource productivity and shows us that this is technically possible without limiting the quality of life. 

Wolfram Mauser
Water Resources: Efficient, Sustainable and Equitable Use
Edited by Klaus Wiegandt

Haus Publishing London, 2009
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Today, about a third of the world's population suffers from scarcity of water. The number is expected to increase up to two-thirds by the year 2025. It cannot be ruled out that water shortages will cause regional conflicts.

Wolfram Mauser, Professor of Geography and Remote Sensing, explores the causes of the severe shortage of the most important natural resource and presents possible future sustainable use of water resources.

Rainer Münz/Albert F. Reiterer
Overcrowded World: Population Explosion and International Migration
Edited by Klaus Wiegandt

Haus Publishing London, 2009
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In all probability the world's population will grow an additional three billion to reach nine billion people, especially in newly industrializing and developing countries. How will the Earth cope with this growth?

Demographer Rainer Münz and political scientist Albert F. Reiterer outline previous human growth and provide insight about the consequences of further growth. In addition, they explore the unanswered question of how humane living conditions that are compatible with sustainable development can be created worldwide.

Stefan Rahmstorf/Katherine Richardson
Our Threatened Oceans?
Edited by Klaus Wiegandt

Haus Publishing London 2009

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The oceans form a very important basis for our life – they regulate our climate and are an important food source. However, we are destroying them through global warming, overfishing, and pollution.

Stefan Rahmstorf, Professor of Physics of the Oceans, and Katherine Richardson, Professor of Biological Oceanography, describe the fascinating world of the oceans and the abundance of life in the seas. They present how we can effectively protect our ocean ecosystems.

Hermann-Josef Wagner
Energy: The World's Race for Resources in the 21st Century
Edited by Klaus Wiegandt

Haus Publishing London, 2009
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There is hardly a more explosive question than the one of energy in the future. Due to the population explosion, energy consumption will continue to dramatically increase. The global political landscape will be redefined based on resources, and we must find alternative sources of energy in order to avoid a climatic catastrophe.

Hermann-Josef Wagner, Professor of Energy Systems and Energy Economics, shows that we must use alternative energy sources also and how we can. The future global energy supply represents an enormous challenge – but we are well prepared and have the means to meet it.

Bernd Meyer
Costing the Earth? – Perspectives of Sustainable Development
Edited by Klaus Wiegandt

Haus Publishing London, 2009
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The United Nations expects the world's population to reach 9 billion people by the year 2050. The world's gross domestic product will grow 130% by the year 2030 – in particular, in the so-called industrializing countries such as China and India, enormous economic growth is already taking place. This means that the extraction of resources from nature will increase by around 50% – and also the storage of waste and toxic matter in the environment or emissions of greenhouse gases. A temperature rise of 2° C is already unavoidable. Bernd Meyer shows us which options for action we have to meet the arguably biggest challenge facing humanity and how our economy must respond to this challenge.

Bernd Meyer is Professor of Economics at the University of Osnabrück and Scientific Director of the Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftliche Strukturforschung (Institute of Economic Structures Research). He was Chairman of the Committee for Evolutionary Economics of the "Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften" (an economic and social sciences association) and Chairman of the Advisory Council on "Integrated Economic and Environmental Accounts" of (Germany's) Federal Ministry for the Environment.

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
The New Plagues: Pandemics and Poverty in a Globalized World
Edited by Klaus Wiegandt

Haus Publishing London, 2009
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Throughout the history of mankind infectious diseases and epidemics have consistently wiped out entire geographical land areas, caused mass migrations and determined the outcome of wars. And yet even now in the course of increasing globalization of our world, infectious diseases have not become less threatening. They affect all aspects of our lives and are the subject of research and medicine, form our society and culture, and influence our economy and politics. This book not only describes the rising threat of epidemics in a global world, but also presents the possibilities and strategies for their containment. What can we do to avoid the rising threat?

Stefan H.E. Kaufmann is Professor of Immunology and Microbiology and Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin.

Josef H. Reichholf
The Demise of Diversity: Loss and Extinction
Edited by Klaus Wiegandt

Haus Publishing London, 2009
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There is superb species diversity on our planet. The abundance of life evolved over hundreds of millions of years. Up to now we are familiar with only a limited segment of biodiversity. We do not even roughly know how many types of animals, plants, and microbes there are. However, we can be sure that the natural species biodiversity does not exist just for the fun of it, nor has it been created at the whim of nature. It is very important for the survival of life on Earth. However, the diversity of species is constantly being destroyed when rain forests are cleared, wetlands are caused to dry up, farming land is intensively cultivated, and oceans are overfished and poisoned. This book deals with the biological diversity of the Earth and its survival – with the future of life.

Josef H. Reichholf is a zoologist, evolutionary biologist and ecologist. Professor Reichholf teaches protection of the environment at the Technical University of Munich. He is head of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology of the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich.

Harald Müller
Building a New World Order: Sustainable Policies for the Future
Edited by Klaus Wiegandt

Haus Publishing London, 2009
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Our world is formed by different values, cultures, and ideologies. It is formed by interests and beliefs, morals and passion, good and bad. Democratization based on values and norms of Western enlightenment are confronted with the concept of non-democratic states. The idea of "global governance", which takes measures to solve conflicts and manage risks in the world, is becoming more and more accepted. This book shows why success depends on the commitment of many people instead of a few state leaders and how the conditions for establishing sustainable norms in such a world order can be created.

Harald Müller is Professor of International Relations at the University of Frankfurt/Main and Executive Director of the foundation Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (Peace Research Institute) in Frankfurt.