Note: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Special Presentations -- 1 Global Warming and Water Resources-From Basic Science to Environmental Studies -- 1.1 Global Warming and Water Resources -- 1.2 Is Global Warming Occurring? -- 1.3 Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Land Model -- 1.4 Global Warming Experiment -- 1.5 Future Change in Water Availability -- 1.6 Worsening Water Shortage -- Eco-Lab Talk (1): Encounter of Scientific Curiosity and Social Mission: Curiosity-Driven and Mission-Oriented Research -- 1.7 A Pioneer Who Continues to Research Climate Change -- 1.8 My Side-Track Led to the Prediction of Global Warming -- 1.9 "Air Man" and "Sea Man" Cooperated on Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model -- 1.10 Accepting Criticisms as Challenges -- 1.11 Importance of Stepping Between Disciplines -- References -- 2 Factor 5: Towards an Affluent Society with Least Use of Resources -- 2.1 Countries Satisfying the Conditions for Sustainability -- 2.2 Increasing Resource Efficiency Fivefold -- 2.3 What Is Going on in Greenland? -- 2.4 We Now Need a Kuznets Curve of Decarbonization -- 2.5 Three Methods of Decarbonization -- 2.6 What Can Renewable Energies Achieve? -- 2.7 Idea of Making Per-Capita Emissions Rights Equal -- 2.8 Task of Decoupling Prosperity from CO2 Emissions -- 2.9 Higher Energy Prices Are Necessary -- 2.10 Who Will Be the Winners? -- Eco-Lab Talk (2): Technology × Society = Transformation -- 2.11 Toward a Society that Coexists with the Environment, as Beautiful as a Butterfly -- 2.12 Halving Resource Use, Doubling Wealth -- 2.13 Factor 5 Suggests the Form of Society We Should Have -- 2.14 Entering, and Emerging from, the Era of Global Warming -- 2.15 What Universities Should Do in Collaboration -- 3 Energy and the Use of Nuclear Power -- 3.1 Earth's Matter and Energy Are Limited -- 3.2 Fossil Fuels Are the Accumulation of Energy Provided by the Sun. , 3.3 Life and Matter Are Unstable -- 3.4 What Is Sustainability? -- 3.5 Our Reality and the Problems We Face -- 3.6 Energy Slaves and CO2 Emissions -- 3.7 Why I Am Against the Use of Nuclear Energy -- 3.8 Solar Energy to Depend On -- Eco-Lab Talk (3): Diversity × Cooperation = Sustainability -- 3.9 How Should We Design the Future of all Humanity? -- 3.10 Humanity Continues to Destroy Gaia's Autonomous System of Life -- 3.11 Static and Dynamic Power to Sustain Fragile Biosystems -- 3.12 The Earth and Humanity's Diversity and Cooperation -- 4 Politics in Global Change: A Threat Called Global Warming -- 4.1 End of Idealism After the Cold War, and the Global Warming Issue -- 4.2 Global Warming Takes the Place of Nuclear Threats -- 4.3 What Japan Should Do After the 3.11 Earthquake -- 4.4 Environmental Diplomacy: Integration of Science and Diplomacy -- 4.5 Necessity of International Joint Research by East Asian Nations -- Eco-Lab Talk (4): Think about Environmental Issues: Remove Boundaries and Link Different Regions -- 4.6 Getting to Grips with Environmental Issues: An Origin in Mountaineering -- 4.7 What I Learned from Research While Working at a Company -- 4.8 Global Environmental Issues: Between Natural Science and Modern Society -- 4.9 Looking for Ambitious Talents to Cross Disciplinary Boundaries and Address Issues -- References -- Panel Discussion -- 5 Considering Sustainable Society After the Great East Japan Earthquake -- 5.1 Points of Discussion for a Sustainable Post-3.11 Society -- 5.2 Calling for an International Cooperation Framework for Huge Earthquakes -- 5.3 Energy Source Diversity and Nuclear Power -- 5.4 Impact of the Nuclear Accident on Germany -- 5.5 What Choice Should Japan Make? -- 5.6 Agreement, and Towards Diagnosis and Treatment -- Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University: Message from the Dean. , Creating and Developing a New Discipline Called "Environmental Studies" -- About the Speakers -- About the Moderators -- About the Editors -- About this Book.