Physical and biological bases of life stability: Man. Biota, Environment
✍ Scribed by R. E. Munn
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 121 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-6369
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✦ Synopsis
This is a remarkable book, written by Victor Gorshkov, a Russian scientist from the Nuclear Physics Institute in St. Petersburg. Amongst other things, the book provides an entrance into the mostly untranslated Russian literature on the topic of ecological stability, including 40 references by Victor Gorshkov himself. More importantly, it draws together ideas from a multitude of disciplines, including biogeochemistry (an interdisciplinary discipline in itself), genetics, population dynamics, ecology, climatology and even ethics and religion. Insofar as I can determine, quite a few of the references are to 'keystone' papers, and many of the people in the list of acknowledgements on p. 7 of the preface are 'keystone' scientists, such as Bert Bolin, Paul Damon, Kiril Kondratiev and James Lovelock. The western literature is well represented in the bibliography (e.g.