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Acoustic Ecology in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves
, 2017 Acoustic ecology is a dynamic interdisciplinary field that studies the social, cultural, and ecological aspects of our environment through sound.
Gifford, Toby, Barclay, Leah
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, 2017 Biosphere reserves operating under the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme aim to achieve three mandate management objectives of conservation, sustainable socio-economic development, and logistic support.
Dart, Peter +2 more
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Towards understanding how surface life can affect interior geological processes: a non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach [PDF]
, 2011 Life has significantly altered the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and crust. To what extent has it also affected interior geological processes? To address this question, three models of geological processes are formulated: mantle convection, continental ...
F. Gans +6 more
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Biosphere reserves in action: Case studies of the American experience
, 1995 For nearly 20 years, biosphere reserves have offered a unique framework for building the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems.
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Man and the Biosphere Programme: biennial activity report 2016-2017.
, 2018 UNESCO’S MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE (MAB) PROGRAMME is a rare UN entity, one that includes both a strategic comprehensive vision for sustainable development and a powerful implementation tool endorsed and adhered to by Member States. Through the MAB Programme,
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BIOSPHERIC ORGANIZATION AS A “CONTINENTS – OCEANIC BASINS” SYSTEM
Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2016 The functional characteristics of the biosphere are reflected in its binominale frame: continents – oceanic basins. The river-basin land, on the one hand, and pericontinental oceanic waters on the other hand, are the main components of the homeostatic ...
Sergei P. Gorshkov, Olga I. Mochalova
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Responsibility to Nature? Hans Jonas and Environmental Ethics
Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2013 This paper presents the philosopher Hans Jonas’s idea of an environmental ethics. Through an outline of the development of man’s relation to nature from Greek antiquity to the present it is argued that science and technology in modernity favour a ...
Peter Wolsing
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The Formation of the Concept of Noosphere Development of Modern Society in the Conditions of Information Society [PDF]
Философия и космология, 2016 Analyzed the conditions of formation of the concept of noosphere development of modern soci- ety, based on ideas of V. Vernadsky about noosphere; justified categorical apparatus of the themes associated with the concepts “biosphere”, “noosphere”, the ...
Valentina Voronkova
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Stable isotopes and biosphere-atmosphere interactions : processes and biological controls /
, 2005 The emerging multidisciplinary field of earth system science sets out to improve our understanding functioning ecosystems, at a global level across the entire planet.
Ehleringer, J. R. +2 more
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Structure, Evolution of the Biosphere and Possible Ways of Noospherogenesis [PDF]
Журнал Сибирского федерального университета: Серия Биология, 2016 The biosphere is complex of bioinert systems, the smallest structural unit of which is an ecosystem or biogeocoenosis. The biosphere has a hierarchical structure.
Alexander A. Protasov
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