The Biosphere and Noosphere Reader: Global Environment, Society and Change,9780415166447

The Biosphere and Noosphere Reader: Global Environment, Society and Change

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415166447
ISBN10: 0415166446
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-02-12
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

The Reader is the first comprehensive history of the noosphere and biosphere. Drawing on classical influences, modern parallels, and insights into the future, the Reader traces the emergence of noosphere and biosphere concepts within the concept of environmental change. Reproducing material from seminal works, both past and present, key ideas and writings of prominent thinkers are presented, including Bergson, Vernadsky, Lovelock, Russell, Needham, Huxley, Medawar, Toynbee and Boulding, and extensive introductory pieces by the editors draw attention to common themes and competing ideas. The Biosphere and Noosphere Readerincludes an introduction by former Sovier Premier Mikhail Gorbachev.

Table of Contents

List of boxes
vii
List of figures
viii
Foreword ix
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Preface xi
Acknowledgements and sources xiii
Introduction: Sketching the Noosphere
1(10)
Origins: The Biosphere and the Noosphere
11(38)
Introduction
11(38)
Man and Nature, or the Earth as modified as human action
21(1)
George Perkins Marsh
The Face of the Earth
22(1)
Eduard Suess
Geology
23(3)
Thomas C. Chamberlin
Rollin D. Salisbury
Geochemistry
26(2)
Vladimir I. Vernadsky
Elements of physical biology
28(2)
Alfred J. Lotka
Holism and evolution
30(5)
Jan Christiaan Smuts
The biosphere; Problems of biogeochemistry
35(4)
Vladimir I. Vernadsky
The biosphere
39(2)
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
Discovering the biosphere
41(3)
Lynton K. Caldwell
Vernadsky and biospheral ecology
44(2)
Nicholas Polunin
Jacques Grinevald
Man and the biosphere
46(3)
Kenneth Stokes
Theories: The Evolution of the Concept of `Noosphere'
49(52)
Introduction
49(52)
Creative evolution
57(3)
Henri Bergson
The origins of humanity and the evolution of mind
60(10)
Edouard Le Roy
The phenomenon of man; The antiquity and world expansion of human culture
70(10)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Introduction to The Phenomenon of Man
80(5)
Julian S. Huxley
Cosmologist of the future
85(3)
Joseph Needham
Vision of the unity
88(1)
Arnold J. Toynbee
Review, The Phenomenon of Man
89(4)
Peter B. Medawar
On the remarkable testament of the Jesuit palaeontologist Teilhard de Chardin
93(1)
George Gaylord Simpson
Scientific thought as a planetary phenomenon; The biosphere and the noosphere
94(7)
Vladimir I. Vernadsky
Parallels: Gaia and Global Change
101(40)
Introduction
101(40)
Theory of the Earth
110(1)
James Hutton
On the influence of carbonic acid
111(2)
Svante Arrhenius
Fitness of the environment
113(2)
Lawrence J. Henderson
Gaia as seen through the atmosphere; The Earth as a living organism
115(5)
James E. Lovelock
Jim Lovelock's Gaia
120(2)
Lynn Margulis
Debating Gaia
122(9)
Stephen H. Schneider
Global change
131(3)
Thomas F. Malone
Sustainable development of the biosphere
134(2)
William C. Clark
Noosphere, Gaia and the science of the biosphere
136(5)
Rafal Serafin
Potential: The Future of the Noosphere
141(40)
Introduction
141(40)
The ascent of life
150(4)
Thomas A. Goudge
The Gutenberg galaxy
154(1)
Marshall McLuhan
Theee biology of ultimate concern
155(3)
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Biospheres: metamorphosis of Planet Earth
158(2)
Dorion Sagan
The way: an ecological world view
160(3)
Edward Goldsmith
The selfish gene
163(2)
Richard Dawkins
Ecodynamics: a new theory of societal evolution
165(2)
Kenneth Boulding
Reflection on the noosphere - humanism in our time
167(9)
Nikita N. Moiseev
Metaman: the merging of humans and machines into a global super-organism
176(1)
Gregory Stock
The global brain awakens: our next evolutionary leap
177(4)
Peter Russell
Epilogue: The Noosphere and Contemporary Global Issues
181(8)
Bibliography 189(8)
Index 197

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