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050 00 GE170|b.B56 1999
082 00 304.2|221
245 04 The biosphere and noosphere reader :|bglobal environment,
society, and change /|cedited by Paul R. Samson and David
Pitt ; with a foreword by Mikhail S. Gorbachev
264 1 London ;|aNew York :|bRoutledge,|c1999
300 xvi, 206 pages :|billustrations ;|c26 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and
index
505 0 1. Introduction: Sketching the noosphere --
505 0 2. Origins: The biosphere and the noosphere ; Introduction
--|tMan and nature, or the Earth as modified by human
action /|rGeorge Perkins Marsh --|tThe face of the Earth /
|rEduard Suess --|tGeology /|rThomas C. Chamberlin and
Rollin D. Salisbury --|tGeochemistry /|rVladimir I.
Vernadsky --|tElements of physical biology /|rAlfred J.
Lotka --|tHolism and evolution /|rJan Christiaan Smuts --
|tThe biosphere ; Problems of biogeochemistry /|rVladimir
I. Vernadsky --|tThe biosphere /|rG. Evelyn Hutchinson --
|tDiscovering the biosphere /|rLynton K. Caldwell --
|tVernadsky and biospheral ecology /|rNicholas Polunin and
Jacques Grinevald --|tMan and the biosphere /|rKenneth
Stokes --
505 0 3. Theories: The evolution of the concept of 'noosphere.'
; Introduction --|tCreative evolution /|rHenri Bergson --
|tThe origins of humanity and the evolution of mind /
|rEdouard Le Roy --|tThe phenomenon of man ; The antiquity
and world expansion of human culture /|rPierre Teilhard de
Chardin --|tIntroduction to The phenomenon of man /
|rJulian S. Huxley --|tCosmologist of the future /|rJoseph
Needham --|tVision of the unity /|rArnold J. Toynbee --
|tReview, The phenomenon of man /|rPeter B. Medawar --|tOn
the remarkable testament of the Jesuit palaeontologist
Teilhard de Chardin /|rGeorge Gaylord Simpson --
|tScientific thought as a planetary phenomenon ; The
biosphere and the noosphere /|rVladimir I. Vernadsky --
505 0 4. Parallels: Gaia and global change ; Introduction --
|tTheory of the earth /|rJames Hutton --|tOn the influene
of carbonic acid /|rSvante Arrhenius --|tFitness of the
environment /|rLawrence J. Henderson --|tGaia as seen
through the atmosphere ; The Earth as a living organism /
|rJames E. Lovelock --|tJim Lovelock's Gaia /|rLynn
Margulis --|tDebating Gaia /|rStephen H. Schneider --
|tGlobal change /|rThomas F. Malone --|tSustainable
development of the biosphere /|rWilliam C. Clark --
|tNoosphere, Gaia and the science of the biosphere /
|rRafal Serafin --
505 0 5. Potential: The future of the noosphere ; Introduction -
-|tThe ascent of life /|rThomas A. Goudge --|tThe
Gutenberg galaxy /|rMarshall McLuhan --|tThe biology of
ultimate concern /|rTheodosius Dobzhansky --|tBiospheres:
metamorphosis of planet Earth /|rDorion Sagan --|tThe way:
an ecological world view /|rEdward Goldsmith --|tThe
selfish gene /|rRichard Dawkins --|tEcodynamics: a new
theory of societal evolution /|rKenneth Boulding --
|tReflection on the noosphere -- humanism in our time /
|rNikita N. Moiseev --|tMetaman: the merging of humans and
machines into a global super-organism /|rGregory Stock --
|tThe global brain awakens: our next evolutionary leap /
|rPeter Russell --
505 0 6. Epilogue: the noosphere and contemporary global issues
650 0 Environmental policy|xSocial aspects
650 0 Human ecology
650 0 Biosphere
700 1 Samson, Paul R.,|d1966-
700 1 Pitt, David,|d1944-
