Scholarpedia:Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Planet Earth
2013 will be a special year of emphasis on the Mathematics of Planet Earth, interpreted as broadly as possible, according to the organizers of the initiative Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013. Earth is a planet with dynamic processes in the mantle, oceans and atmosphere creating climate, causing natural disasters, and influencing fundamental aspects of life and life-supporting systems. In addition to these natural processes, humans have developed systems of great complexity, including economic and financial systems; the World Wide Web; frameworks for resource management, transportation, and energy production and utilization; health care delivery; and social organizations. Human activity has increased to the point where it influences the global climate, impacts the ability of the planet to feed itself and threatens the stability of these systems. Issues such as climate change, sustainability, man-made disasters, control of diseases and epidemics, management of resources, and global integration have come to the fore.
Scholarpedia has hundreds of peer-reviewed articles written by the world top experts related to Mathematics of Planet Earth. They are in the categories
- Applied mathematics
- Astrophysics
- Celestial mechanics
- Complexity
- Dynamical systems
- Fluid dynamics
- Graphs and networks
- Economics
- Marine biology
- Mathematical biology
- Network dynamics
- Planetary physics
- Population biology
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