Vernadsky's Biosphere, Teilhard's Noosphere, and Lovelock's Gaia: Perspectives on Human Intervention in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/2996 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/2996 http://eprints.org/relation/isCoversheetVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/2996 archive 351 disk0/00/00/29/56 2016-01-15 01:57:47 2021-08-27 17:12:57 2016-01-15 01:57:47 monograph show 2 Serafin R. AL1204 Vernadsky's Biosphere, Teilhard's Noosphere, and Lovelock's Gaia: Perspectives on Human Intervention in Global Biogeochemical Cycles pub iis_env iis_glm prog_bio Advances in analytical understanding of the biogeochemical cycles of the Biosphere have spawned the concepts of Gaia and Noosphere. Though seldom acknowledged today. it was the natural scientist Vladimir Vernadsky who first drew attention to the increasing scale of human intervention into planetary biogeochemical cycles. He did so in his book "Biosfera", published in 1926. In concert with the Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Vernadsky developed the notion of Noosphere -- an evolving collective human consciousness on Earth which was exerting an increasing influence on biogeochemical processes. More recently, the atmospheric chemist James Lovelock has introduced the notion of the Earth as Gaia. In an attempt to explain chemical disequilibria in the Earth's atmosphere, Lovelock has postulated the Earth to be a self-regulating system made up of biota and their environment with the capacity to maintain the Earth's environment in a steady state favorable to life. Gaia and Noosphere have come to represent contrasting interpretations of humanity's relation to planetary ecology, thereby providing potent symbols for human action. With rapid advances in instruments of measurement coupled with increased international scientific cooperation, an analytical science of the Biosphere is emerging. The contradictions of the nature-centered view of Gaia and the human-centered view of Noosphere could become irrelevant as a result. 1987-10 published WP-87-096 WP-87-096 10 2375 public working_paper IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria 23 FALSE info:eu-repo/semantics/book