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" The biosphere and noosphere reader : "
edited by Paul R. Samson and David Pitt ; with a foreword by Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
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b798564
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The biosphere and noosphere reader : : global environment, society, and change /\ edited by Paul R. Samson and David Pitt ; with a foreword by Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1999.
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xvi, 206 pages :: illustrations ;; 26 cm
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0415166446
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: 0415166454
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: 9780415166447
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: 9780415166454
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Introduction: Sketching the noosphere -- 2. Origins: The biosphere and the noosphere. Introduction -- Man and nature, or the Earth as modified by human action / George Perkins Marsh -- The face of the Earth / Eduard Suess -- Geology / Thomas C. Chamberlin and Rollin D. Salisbury -- Geochemistry / Vladimir I. Vernadsky -- Elements of physical biology / Alfred J. Lotka -- Holism and evolution / Jan Christiaan Smuts -- The biosphere ; Problems of biogeochemistry / Vladimir I. Vernadsky -- The biosphere / G. Evelyn Hutchinson -- Discovering the biosphere / Lynton K. Caldwell -- Vernadsky and biospheral ecology / Nicholas Polunin and Jacques Grinevald -- Man and the biosphere / Kenneth Stokes -- 3. Theories: The evolution of the concept of 'noosphere.' Introduction -- Creative evolution / Henri Bergson -- The origins of humanity and the evolution of mind / Edouard Le Roy -- The phenomenon of man ; The antiquity and world expansion of human culture / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- Introduction to The phenomenon of man / Julian S. Huxley -- Cosmologist of the future / Joseph Needham -- Vision of the unity / Arnold J. Toynbee -- Review, The phenomenon of man / Peter B. Medawar -- On the remarkable testament of the Jesuit palaeontologist Teilhard de Chardin / George Gaylord Simpson -- Scientific thought as a planetary phenomenon ; The biosphere and the noosphere / Vladimir I. Vernadsky -- 4. Parallels: Gaia and global change. Introduction -- Theory of the earth / James Hutton -- On the influene of carbonic acid / Svante Arrhenius -- Fitness of the environment / Lawrence J. Henderson -- Gaia as seen through the atmosphere ; The Earth as a living organism / James E. Lovelock -- Jim Lovelock's Gaia / Lynn Margulis -- Debating Gaia / Stephen H. Schneider -- Global change / Thomas F. Malone -- Sustainable development of the biosphere / William C. Clark -- Noosphere, Gaia and the science of the biosphere / Rafal Serafin -- 5. Potential: The future of the noosphere. Introduction -- The ascent of life / Thomas A. Goudge -- The Gutenberg galaxy / Marshall McLuhan -- The biology of ultimate concern / Theodosius Dobzhansky -- Biospheres: metamorphosis of planet Earth / Dorion Sagan -- The way: an ecological world view / Edward Goldsmith -- The selfish gene / Richard Dawkins -- Ecodynamics: a new theory of societal evolution / Kenneth Boulding -- Reflection on the noosphere -- humanism in our time / Nikita N. Moiseev -- Metaman: the merging of humans and machines into a global super-organism / Gregory Stock -- The global brain awakens: our next evolutionary leap / Peter Russell -- 6. Epilogue: the noosphere and contemporary global issues.
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Biosphere.
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Environmental policy-- Social aspects.
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Human ecology.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Biosphäre
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biosphère-- écologie humaine.
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Biosphere.
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Environmental policy-- Social aspects.
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Human ecology.
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Mensch
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Noosphäre
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politique de l'environnement.
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Umwelt
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Biosfeer.
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Noosphere.
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| Dewey Classification
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304.2
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GE170.B56 1999
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43.02bcl
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RB 10844rvk
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Pitt, David,1944-
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Samson, Paul R.,1966-
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