ISBN: 9783540203285 - stability of life on earth: principal subject of scientific research in the 21st century (environmental sciences) (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. A good reading copy. Hardcover, xvii + 165pp, bibliography, index. Ex-university library, marked "withdrawn": an external stamp on all outer page edges and internal library markings, a gentle paperclip mark on upper edge of last few leaves. Pages are clean and bright with a hint of age-toning to margins/edges, unmarked text: no writing, no highlighting of any kind. An indentation with short creases/folds to lower outer corner of most pages throughout the book. Firm secure binding. Boards are storage- and shelfworn, with indentations and edgewear (noticeably scuffed all outer corners with short edge-nicks). Published without a dust jacket. --- This book shows how human activity on local, regional and global scales has perturbed natural biogeochemical cycles, "colliding" with Nature. The authors demonstrate how the scale and intensity of human-induced destruction of Nature and resultant feedback mechanisms have continuously expanded. They consider the likelihood of increasing numbers of natural disasters as a result of such activities, and propose that sustainable development become a principal research topic for the 21st Century. --- Contents: 1. Ecological-Geographic Space: A Fresh View of Old Problems 2. Geographical Environment: Structure and Processes 3. Structural Units of the Geographical Environment 4. Humans Are Changing the Geographic Environment 5. Formation of the World Community and Its Ideologies 6. The 20th Century: Time of Confrontation With Nature 7. The Scientific Basis of Life Sustainability 8. The Carbon Budget, Role of Biota, and Ecosystem Cost 9. Territorial Expansion as One of Mechanisms for Enhancement of Damage From Natural Hazards.…

XVII, 165 Seiten, Mit graphischen Darstellungen und Tabellen; [Springer Praxis Books in Environmental Sciences]; mit Schutzumschlag; --- gutes Exemplar Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 640 Gr.-8°, Gebundene Ausgabe / Pappband.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In Stability of Life on Earth, Professor Kondratyev and his team show that the concept of biotic regulation is of fundamental importance in solving a wide range of environmental and other problems. They put forward a new approach to the solution of old environmental problems. Beginning with a look at the geographic environment and structural units within it, they show that ecosystems represent a set of homogeneous, closely-correlated communities of organisms and their environment. Biologists call such correlated communities 'biogeocenoses', and they are similar to the corporate structures in economic systems and interact competitively with each other. On the basis of competitive interaction in the biosphere, self-organisation and management take place. The authors show how human economic activity perturbed balances in natural biogeochemical cycles, eliminating and strongly modifying natural land cover, the 20th Century being the time when human activities 'collided' with Nature. They consider scientific bases for the stability and sustainability of life, and demonstrate how the scale and intensity of human-induced destruction of Nature and resultant feedback mechanisms have continuously expanded. They consider the likelihood of increasing numbers of natural disasters as a result of such activities, and propose that sustainable development should become a principal research topic during the 21st Century.…