342 pages , 2021-06-26 The First in a Series of Story's About Near Earth Object Detection, Disaster Preparedness, Incoming and Outgoing Panspermia, Permaculture, Sustainability, Tantric Yoga and Massage, Pan Sensuality, Polyamory, Co-parenting, Collective Living, and LBGTQ+ Issues.
90 pages , National Academies Press , 2009-06-06 NASA maintains a planetary protection policy to avoid the forward biological contamination of other worlds by terrestrial organisms, and back biological contamination of Earth from the return of extraterrestrial materials by spaceflight missions. Forward-contamination issues related to Mars missions were addressed in a 200...[Read More]
459 pages , Springer , 2014-03-14 This volume is a synthesis of the NASA funded work under the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program. Hundreds of scientists have worked for the past eight years to understand one of the most important forces that is changing our planet-human impacts on land cover, that is land use. Its contributions span the natural and the social scienc...[Read More]
325 pages , Walter de Gruyter , 2014-03 this book brings together a variety of topics, covering the broad range of issues that are associated with deep biosphere exploration. In order to explain our observations from deep subsurface ecosystems it is necessary to develop interdisciplinary approaches, ranging from microbiology and geochemistry to physics and modeling. This...[Read More]
483 pages , 2014-05-14 By definition, biosphere is the Earth's geological shell populated by living organisms. Therefore, the biosphere's origin and evolution is primarily a geological problem. At present geological problems are solved using methods of physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics. The multidisciplinary approach is a basis of this book. Life origin problems occup...[Read More]
Coviability of Social and Ecological Systems: Reconnecting Mankind to the Biosphere in an Era of Global Change Vol.1 : The Foundations of a New Paradigm
728 pages , Springer , 2019-03-12 This book considers the principle of ‘sustainable development’ which is currently facing a growing environmental crisis. A new mode of thinking and positioning the ecological imperative is the major input of this volume. The prism of co-viability is not the economics of political agencies that carry the ideology of the dominant/conve...[Read More]
240 pages , MIT Press , 2010-09-24 An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change. The most colossal environmental disturbance in human history is under way. Ever-rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are altering the cycles of matter and life and inte...[Read More]
300 pages , 2018-10-17 The current issues involving Climate Change, Rising Sea Levels, and a Damaged Biosphere causes concerns and fears for the future. Whether your ancient ancestor was angelic, ape-like or alien, their descendants are going to be affected by the inevitable melting of the Polar Ice; and each will be answerable to Climate Change as a force of Nature. The heirs o...[Read More]
530 pages , Springer Science & Business Media , 2012-12-06 Since this new science is of an unprecedented interdisciplinary nature, the book does not merely take stock of its numerous ingredients, but also delivers their multifaceted integration. The resulting master paradigm - the co-evolution of nature and anthroposphere within a geo-cybernetic continuum of processes - ...[Read More]
2672 pages , Wiley , 2001-12-31 A comprehensive overview of environmetric research and its applications... Environmetrics covers the development and application of quantitative methods in the environmental sciences. It provides essential tools for understanding, predicting, and controlling the impacts of agents, both man-made and natural, which affect the environment. Ba...[Read More]
