Biosphere and environmental safety /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Osipov, V. I., author.
Imprint:	Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 53 pages) : color illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Biosphere. Environmental protection. Biosphere. Environmental protection.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12039552

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ISBN:	9783319912592 3319912593 9783319912585 3319912585 9783319912585
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 29, 2018).
Summary:	This book analyses the state of the natural environment and the causes of its degradation using the biosphere approach. Further, those issues that must be resolved immediately on the global level are identified following the ideas defined by V.I. Vernadsky, and new principles of Man-Nature interaction are pursued. The modern world currently faces three global trends inducing biosphere degradation and the aggravation of ecological hazards, namely: a) rapid and uncontrolled growth of human population on the Earth and insufficient natural resources to sustain it; (b) technogenesis development; and (c) global climate change and the aggravation of natural disasters. Ecological safety and military security are becoming the crucial conditions for the survival of modern civilization. To mitigate the ecological strain on the Earth, the technogenesis strategy should be changed and many other pressing issues must be resolved. These problems should be addressed using the biosphere approach, because the individual human being is the biosphere constituent, and his or her safety cannot be provided without maintaining the entire natural system on our planet.
Other form:	Printed edition: 9783319912585
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-319-91259-2

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Biosphere as a still unlearned living sphere
How many of us will be? Population of the Earth
Technogenesis and Its impact on the biosphere state
Populaltion load. Adaptation corridor of a man
What does happen with the climate?
Living with natural disaster risk
Market economy and ecology
Nature conservation and nature use. Ecological safety
Nature as a living soul. Moral aspect
Future of civilization V.I. Verndasky and the noospher History of ecological crises on the Earth Ripening of the modern ecological crisis. Will the civilization survive? Conclusion.

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