Eberhard Umbach

Main research topics

1. Epistemological foundations and applications of Systems Science
   
   Here you find the abstract of the report "Systems Science and its Critics", a short version of which was presented during the international conference "Systems Science 2000 - Integrative Approaches to Natural and Social Dynamics".
   
   
2. Socio-economic systems
   
   with special emphasis on
   - Sustainable Development of industrial societies, taking mainly the example of Germany,
   - globalization and the emergence of a kind of world society as the context in which sustainable development in any one nation has to be realized.
   
   
   See Text On Globalization (as of Jan 2000, in German).
   
   The topic "Sustainable Economic System" was covered in a cooperative pilot project, coordinated by me, for the former Federal Ministry of Science and Technology in the research focus "Technology Assessment". The list of the scientists involved, with their affiliation and the topics treated, and the integrative final report can be found here (USF Project Archive, in German). An English summary is available, too.