Biosphere and Environmental Safety

• Main Author: Osipov, V.I (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Physical geography.; Natural disasters.; Climate change.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Environmental sciences.; Hydrogeology.; Earth System Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Climate Change.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Environmental Science and Engineering.

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 interacti...

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.