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Rethinking the relation between human and nature: Insights from science fiction

open access: yesBusiness and Society Review, Volume 130, Issue S1, Page S53-S67, Spring 2025.
Abstract Facing the accumulation of data that suggest near‐future dramatic changes in our way of life, current visions of transition are anchored in an incremental paradigm that excludes radical change. Using science fiction literature and cinema, this article aims to build such drastic change hypotheses and explore the political–ecological features of
Corinne Gendron, René Audet
wiley   +1 more source

Mikhail Budyko's (1920–2001) contributions to Global Climate Science: from heat balances to climate change and global ecology

open access: yesWIREs Climate Change, Volume 7, Issue 5, Page 682-692, September/October 2016., 2016
Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko (1920–2001) was a Soviet climatologist perhaps best known in the West for his contribution to understandings of climate change. He acted as director of the Main Geophysical Observatory (named after A.I. Voeikov) in Leningrad (St Petersburg) from 1954 and played an active role in advancing Soviet climate agendas within an ...
Jonathan D. Oldfield
wiley   +1 more source

Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.
Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
wiley   +1 more source

Water as the Earth’s Buffer and Immune System

open access: yesJournal of Chemistry, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013
A comprehensive review on water as a buffer of the planet and its immune system is presented. The relationship between the quality of drinking water, the level of development of human intelligence, and its health is highlighted. The problems of obtaining cytogenetically and physiologically safe high‐quality drinking water are discussed along with the ...
Vladyslav V. Goncharuk   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards the Semiotics of Noosphere [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Civilization has brought us into the noosphere world. Besides physical, around (and inside of) us exist and function also mental and cultural entities.
Lozovskiy, Vitaliy
core   +1 more source

Noosphere : an activity-centric infrastructure for distributed interaction

open access: yes, 2013
Distributed interaction is a computing paradigm in which the interaction with a computer system is distributed over multiple devices, users and locations.
Houben, Steven   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

The role of V.I. Vernadsky about the noosphere in the formation of bioethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The ideas of V.I.
Дубовая, Анна   +2 more
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NOOSPHERE LAW AND NOOSPHERE ETHICS IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE

open access: yesThe Educational Discourse a collection of scientific papers
Main material presentation. The role of noospheric ethics as a source of humanistic value orientation in law is examined, with emphasis on the interrelation of human rights, environmental responsibility, and global solidarity. The article explores the concept of noospheric law and ethics as an innovative paradigm capable of transforming contemporary ...
Valentyna Voronkova   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Living with the Internet: ethics in the Noosphere

open access: yesAustralasian Journal of Information Systems, 1997
In this paper we present a holistic alternative to the conventional ground of existent ethical discourse the Internet. We analyse this discourse and the model of the 'net and netizens from which it is derived, and finding it unsatisfactory, present a discourse of co-operative ethics, based on a model of the Internet as a Noetic Hyper Entity.
Emma Rooksby, Diarmuid Pigott
openaire   +3 more sources

GEOCHEMISTRY OF ATMOSPHERIC DUST ON THE TERRITORY OF THE CITY OF YEREVAN [PDF]

open access: yesChemistry Journal of Moldova: General, Industrial and Ecological Chemistry, 2012
This research is focused on the level of heavy metal contents in dust of a near-ground layer of atmosphere. The dust load level was evaluated as medial. Indicated was a quality composition of dominating dust pollutants.
Armen Saghatelyan   +2 more
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