The Biosphere and Noosphere Reader - Global Environment, Society and Change (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

The Reader is the first comprehensive history of the noosphere and biosphere. Drawing on classical influences, modern parallels, and insights into the future, the Reader traces the emergence of noosphere and biosphere concepts within the concept of environmental change. Reproducing material from seminla works, both past and present, key ideas and writings of prominent thinkers are presented, including Bergson, Vernadsky, Lovelock, Russell, Needham, Huxley, Medawar, Toynbee and Boulding, and extensive introductory pieces bu the editors drawattention to common themes and competing ideas. Focussing on issues of origins, theories, parallels and potential, the discussions place issues in a broad context, compare and contrast central concepts with those of the Gaia hypothesis, sustainability and global change, and examine the potential application of noospheric ideas to current debates about culture, education and technology in such realms as the Internet, space exploration, and the emergence of super-consciousness.
Literally the sphere of mind or intellect', the noosphere is aprt of the realm of the possible' in human affairs, where there is a conscious effort to tackle global issues
The noosphere concept captures a number of key contemporary issues - social evolution, global ecology, Gaia, deep ecology and global environmental change - contributing to ongoing debates concerning the implications of emerging technologies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1998
First published:	1999
Editors:	David Pitt • Paul R. Samson
Foreword by:	Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	222
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-16644-7
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
LSN:	0-415-16644-6
Barcode:	9780415166447

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