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Stability of Life on Earth - Principal Subject of Scientific Research in the 21st Century
Kondratyev, Kiril, Losev, Kim, Ananicheva, Maria
Springer
2004
Hardcover 200pp ISBN 3540203281
£79.00
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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.
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