Safety Problems in the Conditions of Natural and Anthropogenic Impacts. Strategy of Living in the Planetary Environmental Crisis Conditions. Under the editorship of N.V. Krasnogorskaya. 3 volumes. St. Petersburg, Humanistics, 2002

The team of authors includes employees of N.F. Gamaleya Institute for Epidemiology & Microbiology of the Academy of Medical Science of Russia V.Y. Litvin, M. Bondarenko, and B.V. Boyev. The editorial team includes professor V.M. Bondarenko.
The three books of the collective monograph review a complex of the leading problems of the modern natural sciences related to humanity survival in the situation of a planetary environmental crisis. The summarized and original results of fundamental, theoretical, and experimental studies of biosphere in interaction of the natural and anthropogenic factors are given. The impact of the external factors on biosphere is considered, including cosmophysical and geodynamic processes. For the first time, the geosphere condition (atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, soil, biosphere in general and the human being, in particular) is discussed using the new methodological basis, including as open systems in the increased anthropogenic loads. Among the social factor, the key attention is paid to the problems of life sustaining on the Earth and the issues of education and upbringing as a basis for harmonious interaction of nature and society.

The book is intended for specialists of various profiles, ecologists, biophysicists, medical professionals – both skilled professionals and students as well as those interested in the problems of environment interaction with biological systems and the biosphere preservation issues.

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