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xvi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index |
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1. Introduction: Sketching the noosphere -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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6. Epilogue: the noosphere and contemporary global issues |
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Environmental policy -- Social aspects
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Human ecology
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Biosphere
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| Alt Author |
Samson, Paul R., 1966-
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Pitt, David, 1944-
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