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Rethinking the relation between human and nature: Insights from science fiction
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
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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
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆
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
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Water as the Earth’s Buffer and Immune System
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
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Towards the Semiotics of Noosphere [PDF]
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
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Noosphere : an activity-centric infrastructure for distributed interaction
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
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The role of V.I. Vernadsky about the noosphere in the formation of bioethics [PDF]
The ideas of V.I.
Дубовая, Анна +2 more
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NOOSPHERE LAW AND NOOSPHERE ETHICS IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE
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
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Living with the Internet: ethics in the Noosphere
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
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GEOCHEMISTRY OF ATMOSPHERIC DUST ON THE TERRITORY OF THE CITY OF YEREVAN [PDF]
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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