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Main Title The Future of Life and the Future of our Civilization [electronic resource] /
Type EBOOK
Author Burdyuzha, Vladimir.
Publisher Springer Netherlands,
Year Published 2006
Call Number R-RZ
ISBN 9781402049682
Subjects Medicine ; Social sciences--Philosophy ; Geography
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4968-2
Collation XVII, 495 p. online resource.
Notes
Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes
Life as a Space Phenomenon -- The Spread of Life Throughout the Cosmos -- Our Understanding of the Evolution of the Sun and its Death -- Planetary Cosmogony: Creation of Homeland for Life and Civilization -- Impact Phenomena: In the Laboratory, on the Earth, and in the Solar System -- The Origin of Life -- The Structural Regularities of Encoding of the Genetic Information in DNA Chromosomes -- The Origin of Life on the Earth: As a Natural Bioreactor Might Arise -- Volcanoes and Life: Life Arises Everywhere Volcanoes Appear -- Lessons of Life -- Human Evolution: Retrodictions and Predictions -- Man's Place in Nature: Human and Chimpanzee Behavior are Compared -- Creative Processes in Natural and Artificial Systems (Third Signal System of Man) -- Conservation of Life -- Human Alteration of Evolutionary Processes -- The Danger of Ruling Models in a World of Natural Changes and Shifts -- Ecological Limits of the Growth of Civilization -- The Potential of Conversion of Environmental Threats into Socioeconomic Opportunities by Applying an Ecohydrology Paradigm -- Advances in Space Meteorology Modeling and Predicting - the Key Factor of Life Evolution -- Ocean Circulations and Climate Dynamics -- How We Are Far from Bifurcation Point of the Global Warming? -- Mankind Can Strive Against the Global Warming -- Can Advanced Civilization Preserve Biodiversity in Marine Systems? -- Can We Personally Influence the Future with Our Present Resources? -- World Energy Development Prospects -- Energy in the Universe and its Availability to Mankind -- Deuterium Explosion Power -- Accelerating Changes in our Epoch and the Role of Time-Horizons -- Mathematical and Spiritual Models: Scope and Challenges -- Future of our Civilization: Benefits and Perils of Advanced Science and Technology -- Dark Energy and Life's Ultimate Future -- Digital Aspects of Nature and Ultimate Fate of Life -- Spirals of Complexity - Dynamics of Change -- How Can We Improve our Life? -- Nutrition, Immunity and Health -- Human Races and Evolutionary Medicine -- Bacteria in Human Health and Disease: From Commensalism to Pathogenicity -- Is there a Solution to the Cancer Problem? -- Are Embryonic Stem Cells Research and Human Cloning by our Future? -- Defeat of Aging - Utopia or Foreseeable Scientific Reality -- Cardiology in XXI Century -- Cancer Problem in the Eyes of the Skin Multiparameter Electrophysiological Imaging -- Perspective of Quantum Medicine -- There are 6 Million Tons of Brain Matter in the World, Why do We Use it so Unwisely -- Conservation of Biological Diversity -- Dialogue among Civilizations as a New Approach for International Relations -- New Proposals to Conserve Life and Civilization -- What is our Future -- Eco-Ethics Must be the Main Science of the Future -- The Vital Tripod: Science, Religion and Humanism for Sustainable Civilization -- HIV/AIDS and the Future of the Poor, Illiterate and Marginalized Populations -- Ocean Settlements are a Step in the Future -- Futurology: Where is Future going? -- Towards Sustainable Future by Transition to the Next Level Civilization -- The Future of Solar System and Earth from Religious Point of View -- Are We Alone? -- The Life-Time of Technological Civilizations -- Calculating the Number of Habitable Planets in the Milky Way. " Our second Symposium The Future of Life and the Future of our Civili- tion" was held in May of 2005 year in Germany (Frankfurt am Main). The first one "The Future of the Universe and the Future of our Civilization" was held in July of 1999 year in Hungary (Budapest and Debrecen). The late professor George Marx from Eotvos University was Chairman of Local Organizing Committee (LOC) in Budapest. In Debrecen professor Denes Berenyi from Institute of Nuclear Research was Chairman of LOC. After Symposium in Hungary a thought was created to hold a new one to discuss the Future of Life. Practically 6 years came after Budapest's meeting. At first the thought was to hold such Symposium in two stages. The Symposium might be begun in India (Rerikh's places in Himalaya) and then might be continued in Greece since Greece is a motherland of our Civilization. But India and Greece were rejected owing to financial pr- lems. It is necessary to remember the late French professor Michel Bounias from University of Avignon who took in participation on all stages of organization of these Symposiums. Professors Jiannis Seiradakis also as and Athina Geronikaki of Thessaloniki University helped me very much before transfer of Symposium of Greece in Germany.