International seminar on nuclear war and planetary emergencies 46th session : the role of science in the third millenium : E. Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, 19-24 August 2013 (World Scientific, 2014)
Includes bibliographical references
1. Opening session. Why science is needed the third millennium: The fundamental novelty of this year / Antonino Zichichi -- Special session: Lectio Magistralis. The great alliance between politics and science / H.E. Professor Pietro Grasso -- Science and diplomacy in the 21st century / E. William Colglazier -- 2. Nuclear power safety and development. Proposal for self regulation of nuclear safety / Lady Barbara Thomas Judge -- What went right: Resilience of existing reactors to catastrophes -- Lessons for generation III+ reactor design / Richard L. Garwin -- Post-Fukushima energy and nuclear policy evolution / Tatsuo Masuda -- Cleaning up a damaged nuclear reactor site / Lake H. Barrett -- Effects of Fukushima on global nuclear development / Charles McCombie -- Ship-based nuclear energy systems for accelerating developing world socioeconomic advance / Robert Petroski and Lowell Wood --
- 3. Pollution and water. Remediation technologies for aquatic bioterrorism using endocrine disrupting chemicals / Terrence J. Collins -- Endocrine disrupting chemical impacts on aquatic systems / Susan Jobling -- 4. Climate and the limits of geoengineering. Fundamental pitfalls of engineering climate or geoengineering: Forcefully intervening in what we neither control nor understand / Christopher Essex -- Why geoengineering and climate don't go together / Anastasios A. Tsonis -- Planning for desperate climate intervention: Can it make sense? / Robert Duncan -- 5. Mitigation of megaterrorism and hybrid threats. Terrorism and other threats to civilization / Richard L. Garwin -- States under siege: Rising terrorism and the ascent of political Islam / Pervez Hoodbhoy -- Innovative European solutions in managing the mega-crisis / Friedrich Steinhausler -- 6. Pollution innovative cleanup technologies. Environmental applications of nanotechnology / Arturo A. Keller --
- Energy and the environment / Davis L. Ford -- Innovative technologies for chlorinated solvent remediation / Kurt D. Pennell and Natalie L. Capiro -- 7. Information security round table. Permanent monitoring panel on information security plenary round table -- Cybersecurity at the crossroads: Are we losing the battle? / Henning Wegener -- 8. Energy -- Key to the evolution of cities. Energy and cities: Key to sustainability / Robert Schock -- Scalable approaches to control network dynamics: Prospects for city networks / Adilson E. Motter and Kimberly A. Gray -- Transforming energy systems and Indian initiatives in intelligent grid / Anil Razdan -- 9. Energy as a planetary emergency. Why energy is an economic planetary emergency / Carmine Difiglio -- Oil and the U.S. economy / Steven Kopits -- World economic growth and oil: A producers' perspective / Adnan Shihab-Eldin -- 10. AIDS and infectious diseases. AIDS-related cancers in Africa / Sam M. Mbulaiteye --
- Biomarkers of GI alterations in HIV disease / Cinzia Papadia -- Prevention of HIV-1 infection with early antiretroviral therapy: Treatment as prevention -- TasP / Ishwar Gilada and T. Gilada -- Computational modeling in support of global eradication of infectious diseases / Philip A. Eckhoff [and others] -- Progression of hepatitis to HCC: Immunological cofactors and genetic biomarkers / Franco M. Buonaguro -- Les liaisons dangereuses: Cancer-related genes and neurodegenerative diseases / Bernardino Ghetti and Franco M. Buonaguro -- 11. PMP reports and conclusions. Climate PMP 2013 / Christopher Essex -- Human factors of terrorism: Where can science contribute: A case study of the Boston marathon bombers / Annette Sobel -- Seismic vulnerability: A growing obstacle to sustainable human settlements in developing countries / Alberto Gonzalez Pozo -- Pollution permanent monitoring panel -- 2013 annual report / Lorne G. Everett --