This book strives to take stock of current achievements and existing challenges in nuclear verification, identify the available information and gaps that can act as drivers for exploring new approaches to verification strategies and technologies. With the practical application of the systems concept to nuclear disarmament scenarios and other, non-nuclear verification fields, it investigates, where greater transparency and confidence could be achieved in pursuit of new national or international nonproliferation and arms reduction efforts. A final discussion looks at how, in the absence of formal government-to-government negotiations, experts can take practical steps to advance the technical development of these concepts.

Nuclear technology in all countries of the world is subject to controls from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to prevent its misuse for military purposes. Recently these controls (or "safeguards") have come under criticism for lack of effectiveness, and the IAEA has now elaborated a strengthened safeguards system reaching deep into the domains of national sovereignty. Problems and prospects of the new system are discussed in this book by a team of German and international scholars, practitioners and officials.

This book presents an interdisciplinary collection of expert analyses and views of existing verification systems. It provides guidelines and advice for the improvement of those systems as well as for new challenges in the field.

Nuclear technology in all countries of the world is subject to controls from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to prevent its misuse for military purposes. Recently these controls (or "safeguards") have come under criticism for lack of effectiveness, and the IAEA has now elaborated a strengthened safeguards system reaching deep into the domains of national sovereignty. Problems and prospects of the new system are discussed in this book by a team of German and international scholars, practitioners and officials.

This book strives to take stock of current achievements and existing challenges in nuclear verification, identify the available information and gaps that can act as drivers for exploring new approaches to verification strategies and technologies. With the practical application of the systems concept to nuclear disarmament scenarios and other, non-nuclear verification fields, it investigates, where greater transparency and confidence could be achieved in pursuit of new national or international nonproliferation and arms reduction efforts. A final discussion looks at how, in the absence of formal government-to-government negotiations, experts can take practical steps to advance the technical development of these concepts.

This will be the first book that deals with the use of commercial satellite imagery to monitor non-proliferation of nuclear weapons non-intrusively from space by an international organisation. The book deals with both the technical as well as policy issues related to the nuclear weapons non-proliferation issues. The authors discuss how an international organisation such as the International Atomic Energy Agency can use information derived from satellites to enhance its policing task.

Neben grundsatzlichen Aussagen zur Technikfolgenabschatzung und Systemanalyse stellen die Autoren Ergebnisse aus der Forschung uber Konzeptionen zur Nachhaltigkeit vor. Weitere Beitrage befassen sich mit der Risikobewertung und -kommunikation, der Technikfolgenabschatzung in verschiedenen Technikfeldern und widmen sich den Themen Mobilitat und Stoffstrome. Die Autoren setzen die jeweiligen Aktivitaten in den unterschiedlichen Forschungsfeldern in einen Kontext zur deutschen Forschung zur Systemanalyse und formulieren eine eigenstandige deutsche Strategie fur diesen Bereich."

Die Reduktion von Treibhausgasemissionen ist ein zentraler Bestandteil der Umweltpolitik. Die dominierenden Emissionen sind in Deutschland mit der Nutzung von Energie verbunden. Zur Unterst tzung von Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und anderen interessierten Gruppierungen bei der Erarbeitung m glichst rationeller Emissionsminderungsstrategien haben acht f hrende wissenschaftliche Institutionen im IKARUS-Projekt energiewirtschaftliche Modelle und eine umfassende Technik- und Rahmendatenbank entwickelt. Deren Inhalte, Potential, aber auch Grenzen werden hier beschrieben und anhand von Beispielen verdeutlicht.

Die Reduktion von Treibhausgasemissionen ist ein zentraler Bestandteil der Umweltpolitik. Die dominierenden Emissionen sind in Deutschland mit der Nutzung von Energie verbunden. Zur Unterstutzung von Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und anderen interessierten Gruppierungen bei der Erarbeitung moglichst rationeller Emissionsminderungsstrategien haben acht fuhrende wissenschaftliche Institutionen im IKARUS-Projekt energiewirtschaftliche Modelle und eine umfassende Technik- und Rahmendatenbank entwickelt. Deren Inhalte, Potential, aber auch Grenzen werden hier beschrieben und anhand von Beispielen verdeutlicht."

With the considerable advances made in the quality of sensors on board commercial observation satellites, information gained from them not only became widely available, but very useful for the verification of a number of arms control treaties including the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (the NPT). Satellites have begun to play an important role in the safeguards procedures under the NPT. For example, from satellites, nuclear facilities and activities such as the construction and shapes of buildings (including underground activities), plant expansion, and changes in operational status can be monitored. For an effective use of satellite imagery, it is important to determine identifiable signatures related to nuclear facilities that could be used in the interpretation and verification of activities. The book presents studies on visual and computer-based interpretation of remote sensing data for international safeguards purposes.