The 2008 edition of the Ecology Yearbook (Jahrbuch Ökologie) is on sale from September 17, 2007. From its very beginnings in 1991, the yearbook has been compiled and shaped in cooperation with the most important environment institutes in the German-speaking countries. The editorial work was again undertaken by Professor em. Udo E. Simonis of the Science Center Berlin (WZB).
Based on a broad understanding of the term “ecology”, rooted in everyday experience and comprising the relationship of men and nature, of society and environment, the Yearbook aims at
·          presenting solid information on the state of the ecology and the develop­ment of threats to our natural
        environment,
·          contributing to a critical discussion on national and international environmental policy,
·          demonstrating sustainable development alternatives in co-evolution with nature.
The structure of the book comprises a controversial debate of experts on a topical issue of environmental policy, the documentation of relevant ecological initiatives, and the presentation of considerate dealings and successful co-evolution with nature in everyday life.
The 2008 edition of the yearbook focusses on: "Impacts of Climate Change", "Bionics",  "Eco-Lifestyles", and "Strategic Environmental Impact Assessments".
Other major articles include a discussion on the resource and the growth question, the accident in Forsmark atomic plant, and the debate on excellence of German universities.
All in all 50 authors contributed to the yearbook.

   Jahrbuch Ökologie 2008
   Günter Altner, Heike Leitschuh, Gerd Michelsen,
   Udo E. Simonis, Ernst U. von Weizsäcker (Eds.)
   Munich: ¬ C.H. Beck, 2007
   320 pages, Euro 14,95
   ISBN: 978-3-406-54817-8

Review Copies can be obtained from: ¬ C.H. Beck Publishing House, Press Department, Wilhelmstr. 9,
D-80801 München/Munich, Tel.: ++49-89-38 189 405.

To honour and to remember economist and politician Professor Reimut Jochimsen, who died in 1999, the most important of his articles were collected for this book, supplemented by a comprehensive bibliography. The book was presented on occasion of Reimut Jochimsen's 70th birthday.

   Ökonomie für die Politik - Politik für die Ökonomie
   Selected Writings of  Reimut Jochimsen
   Edited by  Ullrich Heilemann und Udo E. Simonis
   Berlin: ¬ Duncker & Humblot, 2003
   273 pp., Euro 49,80
   ISBN 3-428-11167-2

Review copies to be obtained from ¬ Duncker & Humblot Publishers, Press Department,
Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 9, D-12165 Berlin, Tel.: +49 (30)-790 006-19.

The > Öko-Lexikon, written by 124 experts provides comprehensive and critical information on all significant terms, lines and perspectives of ecology. In more than 800 articles a quick and competent insight is given in important ecological topics and environmental events and discussions on the local, national and international level.

   > Öko-Lexikon
   Edited by Udo E. Simonis
   Munich: ¬ C.H. Beck, 2003
   272 pages, Euro 12,90
   ISBN 3-406-49477-3

Review copies to be obtained from: ¬ C.H. Beck Publishing House, Press Department, Wilhelmstr. 9
D-80801 München, Tel. +49 (89)-38 189 405.

The book was composed to honour Udo E. Simonis on his 65th birthday. During the last decades he has distinguished himself as an ecological economist, time and again contributing to the discussion on how to guide the driving forces of global change and to better balance world economy and world ecology.

   > Friede den Völkern -
   Nachhaltigkeit als interkultureller Prozess
   Festschrift for Udo E. Simonis
   Edited by Günter Altner and Gerd Michelsen
   Frankfurt a.M.: ¬ VAS-Verlag für Akademische Schriften
   233 pp., Euro 15,--
   ISBN 3-88864-361-9

Review copies to be obtained from: ¬ VAS, Wielandstr. 10, 60318 Frankfurt a.M., Tel: 069-77 93 66.

On 23 January 2003 the jury, consisting of Professors Walter Buhr, University of Siegen, Udo E. Simonis, Science Center Berlin, Peter Treuner, University of Stuttgart, and Friedel Fleck, President of the State Central Bank of Northrhine-Westphalia, chose the recipients and honoured Christian Langhagen-Rohrbach, Nicole Andrea Philipp, and Professor Ulrich Trick for their essays. The awards were presented on 16 Juni 2003 at the State Central Bank in Duesseldorf. At the ceremony the topic of the Reimut-Jochimsen-Award 2004 was announced.

PIK is an interdisciplinary, international institute comprising a staff of 150 colleagues working on climate change and earth system analysis, and developing strategies of adaptation and precautionary measures.

Sustainable development is considered an idea which may contribute to an integration of the sciences, thus directing their efforts towards a positive solution of the problem addressed by the prize question.

   > Die Rousseau-Frage – ökologisch definiert
   Edited by  Udo E. Simonis,
   Berlin: ¬ edition sigma, 2002
   316 pp, Euro 21,90
   ISBN 3-89404-227-3

Review copies to be obtained from: ¬ edition sigma, Karl-Marx-Str. 17, 12043 Berlin, Tel.: 030-623 23 63.

In February 2002 the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein broke the world record for wind produced energy: As announced by the Schleswag AG on 15th March at Rendsburg, fifty percent of the electricity used by their customers were produced by wind. In January, so the company, the percentage of wind energy consumed by their customers in Gemany’s most northern state had already amounted to 42 percent.

For a discussion of the topic “Wind Energy – Pros and Cons” see > Ecology Yearbook 2000, pp. 159-179
(> download as PDF, 243.2 KB).

• promoting knowledge and ideas concerning human settlements through research, publications and conferences;
• influencing public opinion toward stimulating worldwide cooperation;
• recognizing the benefits of an interdisciplinary approach to human settlements, and promoting and emphasizing such an approach.

Ekistics is a worldwide endeavour, but it has local urban and neighborhood applications.

Simonis, professor of environmental policy, served as vice-president of the society from 1996 to 2000. His expertise includes economic-ecological interrelations, infrastructure planning, and development policy.

Udo E. Simonis succeeds former World Society of Ekistics presidents Lord Llewelyn-Davies (UK); Margaret Mead (USA); Jean Gottmann (France); Eiichi Isomura (Japan); Sir Robert Matthew (UK); R. Buckminster Fuller (USA); Felipe Herrera (Chile); T.A. Lambo (Nigeria); Earl Finbar Murphy (USA); Charles M. Haar (USA); Gerald B. Dix (UK); John G. Papaioannou (Greece); Wu Liangyong (China); Charles M. Correa (India) and Wesley W. Posvar (USA).