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Climate Change Scenarios - Purpose and Construction -- Economic Scenarios for Global Change -- Climate Change: Regulating the Unknown -- Curbing the Omnipresence of Lead in the European Environment Since the 1970s - a Successful Example of Efficient Environmental Policy -- Mission Impossible? Media Coverage of Scientific Findings -- Fishing for Sustainable Policies - Political Causes of Over-fishing and Solutions for Sustainable Fisheries -- Oil Pollution in Marine Ecosystems - Policy, Fate, Effects and Response. 1 HansvonStorchandRichardTol GKSS Research Centre, Max-Planck-Straße 1, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany These are the proceedings of the 4th GKSS School on Environmental - search, which took place on 2-11 November 2005 on the Island of Heligoland in the German Bight. 19 PhD students and postdocs from 10 countries came and dared to sail the 3 hours from Cuxhaven to the only rocky island of Germany, the island of Heligoland, in Novembers heavy storm season. The purpose of this 4th School, with the title "Environmental Crises: S- ence and Policy" was to study the art and science of analyzing, assessing and anticipating environmental change. Among the issues considered are the observational evidence, statistical analysis and dynamic modeling as well as visioning of not-implausible changes in the environment, the changing public perceptionof the environment,functions of theenvironmentandits use. A - ries of four prominent cases, namely climate change, the emissions of gasoline lead into the atmosphere and water bodies, ?sheries policies and the mana- ment of marine oil pollution is reviewed. Obviously, many other cases could havebeenchosen,suchasWaldsterben,nuclearenergy,releaseofcarcinogenic substances, genetically modi?ed food, threat to biodiversity, import of alien species, just to mention a few. We had chosen cases which were close to the researchinterestsoftheorganizersHansvonStorchandRichardTolandtheir institutions, namely the Institute for Coastal Research of the GKSS Research Center in Geesthacht and the Centre for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences 1 (ZMAW) in Hamburg. |