The Biosphere and Noosphere Reader
Subtitle: global environment, society, and change
By: edited by Paul R. Samson and David Pitt ; with a foreword by Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
Contributors: Samson, Paul R., 1966-; Pitt, David, 1944-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 17 December 1998
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415166447
Subjects: Environmental policy -- Social aspects.; Human ecology.; Biosphere.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-195) and index.
Table of contents: label: List of boxes
title: vii; label: List of figures
title: viii; label: Foreword—Mikhail S.Gorbachev
title: ix; label: Preface
title: xi; label: Acknowledgements and sources
title: xiii; label: 1 INTRODUCTION: SKETCHING THE NOOSPHERE
title: 1; label: 2 ORIGINS: THE BIOSPHERE AND THE NOOSPHERE
title: 11; label: Introduction
title: 11; label: George Perkins Marsh Man and nature, or the Earth as modified by human action
title: 21; label: Eduard Suess The Face of the Earth
title: 22; label: Thomas C.Chamberlin and Rollin D.Salisbury Geology
title: 23; label: Vladimir I.Vernadsky Geochemistry
title: 26; label: Alfred J.Lotka Elements of physical biology
title: 28; label: Jan Christiaan Smuts Holism and evolution
title: 30; label: Vladimir I.Vernadsky The biosphere; Problems of biogeochemistry
title: 35; label: G.Evelyn Hutchinson The biosphere
title: 39; label: Lynton K.Caldwell Discovering the biosphere
title: 41; label: Nicholas Polunin and Jacques Grinevald Vernadsky and biospheral ecology
title: 44; label: Kenneth Stokes Man and the biosphere
title: 46; label: 3 THEORIES: THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPT OF ‘NOOSPHERE’
title: 49; label: Introduction
title: 49; label: Henri Bergson Creative evolution
title: 57; label: Edouard Le Roy The origins of humanity and the evolution of mind
title: 60; label: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The phenomenon of man; The antiquity and world expansion of human culture
title: 70; label: Julian S.Huxley Introduction to The Phenomenon of Man
title: 80; label: Joseph Needham Cosmologist of the future
title: 85; label: Arnold J.Toynbee Vision of the unity
title: 88; label: Peter B.Medawar Review, The Phenomenon of Man
title: 89; label: George Gaylord Simpson On the remarkable testament of the Jesuit palaeontologist Teilhard de Chardin
title: 93; label: Vladimir I.Vernadsky Scientific thought as a planetary phenomenon; The biosphere and the noosphere
title: 94; label: 4 PARALLELS: GAIA AND GLOBAL CHANGE
title: 101; label: Introduction
title: 101; label: James Hutton Theory of the Earth
title: 110; label: Svante Arrhenius On the influence of carbonic acid
title: 111; label: Lawrence J.Henderson Fitness of the environment
title: 113; label: James E.Lovelock Gaia as seen through the atmosphere; The Earth as a living organism
title: 115; label: Lynn Margulis Jim Lovelock’s Gaia
title: 120; label: Stephen H.Schneider Debating Gaia
title: 122; label: Thomas F.Malone Global change
title: 131; label: William C.Clark Sustainable development of the biosphere
title: 134; label: Rafal Serafin Noosphere, Gaia and the science of the biosphere
title: 136; label: 5 POTENTIAL: THE FUTURE OF THE NOOSPHERE
title: 141; label: Introduction
title: 141; label: Thomas A.Goudge The ascent of life
title: 150; label: Marshall McLuhan The Gutenberg galaxy
title: 154; label: Theodosius Dobzhansky The biology of ultimate concern
title: 155; label: Dorion Sagan Biospheres: metamorphosis of Planet Earth
title: 158; label: Edward Goldsmith The way: an ecological world view
title: 160; label: Richard Dawkins The selfish gene
title: 163; label: Kenneth Boulding Ecodynamics: a new theory of societal evolution
title: 165; label: Nikita N.Moiseev Reflection on the noosphere—humanism in our time
title: 167; label: Gregory Stock Metaman: the merging of humans and machines into a global super-organism
title: 176; label: Peter Russell The global brain awakens: our next evolutionary leap
title: 177; label: 6 EPILOGUE: THE NOOSPHERE AND CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ISSUES
title: 181; label: Bibliography
title: 189; label: Index
title: 197