Atmospheric Environmental Research: Critical Decisions Between Technological Progress and Preservation of Nature

This is an extended version of lectures that were held at the summer workshop Atmosphiirische Umweltforschung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Technik und Natur (At­ mospheric Environmental Research between Technology and Nature) at the Techni­ 16, 1996. We were very happy to have Paul J. Crutzen, cal University in Cottbus on July winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1995, presenting the key lecture on globally changing chemistry in the atmosphere. Over the last decades, atmospheric chemistr...