The Potsdam Institute performs climate impact research as a key contribution to the study of global environmental change and the prospects of sustainable development. PIK strives to understand our planetary ecosystem as a whole and to develop, on the cognitive basis of Earth-system analysis, concepts for global environmental management. This means linking scientific insights and sociopolitical decision-making in the perspective of the sustainability transition—;a perspective leading from current patterns of using and misusing our global environment to the sustainable development of humankind as a whole.

The Time Scales of the Climate-Economy Feedback and the Climatic Cost of Growth
Stephane Hallegatte, April 2005

Urbanised Territories as a Specific Component of the Global Carbon Cycle, No. 94
H.J. Schellnhuber, A. Svirejeva-Hopkins, January 2005

How Much Warming are we Committed to and How Much Can be Avoided?, No. 93
B. Hare, M. Meinshausen, October 2004

Conceptual Frameworks of Adaptation to Climate Change and their Applicability to Human Health, No. 91
Klein. R.J.T., H.M. Füssel, August 2004

A Note on Domains of Discourse – Logical Know-How for Integrated Environmental Modelling, No. 86
C.C. Jaeger, October 2003

Well Balanced Finite Volume Methods for Nearly Hydrostatic Flows, No. 84
S. Lützenkirchen, S. Langenberg, R. Klein, et al., August 2003

A Set of Atmosphere Statistical-Dynamical Models: Theoretical Background, No. 81
M. Claussen, A. Ganopolski, V. Petoukhov, March 2003

Modelling of Global Vegetation Diversity Pattern, No. 79
I. Venevskaia, S. Venevsky, December 2002

Wavelets Based on Legendre Polynomials (No. 72)
J. Fruhlich, M. Uhlmann, July 2001

Stakeholder Successes in Global Environmental Management (No. 70)
Martin Welp, April 2001

Coupling-Distributed Fortran Applications Using C++ Wrappers and the CORBA Sequence Type (No. 67)
Thomas Slawig, December 2000

A Parallel Algorithm for the Discrete Orthogonal Wavelet Transform (No. 68)
Markus Uhlmann, December 2000

The Rising Tide of Green Unilateralism in World Trade Law (No. 66)
Frank Biermann, December 2000

Proceedings of the European Conference on Advances in Flood Research (No. 65)
Christine Bismuth, Axel Bronstert, Lucas Menzel, November 2000

National and Regional Climate Change Impact Assessments in the Forestry Sector: Workshop Summary (No. 61)
Marcus Lindner, July 2000

The Need for De-Aliasing in a Chebyshev Pseudo-Spectral Method (No. 60)
Markus Uhlmann, June 2000

Measuring the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes (No. 52)
C. Helm, D. F. Sprinz, May 1999

SPRINT-S: A Parallelization Tool for Experiments with Simulation Models (No. 47)
Michael Flechig, May 1999

Complete Non-hierarchical Cluster Analysis (No. 50)
F. W. Gerstengarbe, P. C. Werner, January 1999

Earth System Analysis and the Second Copernican Revolution
H. J. Schellnhuber, January 1999

Implementation of a Parallel Version of a Regional Climate Model
M. Kucken, U. Schattler, October 1997

Integrated Systems Analysis at PIK: a brief epistemology
A. Bronstert, V. Brovkin, M. Krol, et al., March 1997

International Relations and Global Climate Change
Daniel Bodansky, Urs Luterbacher, Ronald Mitchell, et al., March 1997