Biodiversity and overcoming the contemporary environmental crisis: A discussion on anthropocentric and ecosystem-based approaches to sustainable development
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu07.2017.302Abstract
Talking about the biosphere equilibrium, our society has been primarily focused on discussing anthropo-centered issues such as climate, greenhouse gas concentrations, levels of environmental pollution, to name a few. Processes occurring in nature have been marginalized too often in public policy debates. However, diminishing biodiversity and ecosystems degradation are at the core of the current ecological crisis. While perusing development, too often we forget that the Earth’s condition, which enables humans to thrive, is a product of the biosphere and its ecosystems; current human livelihoods are based on ecosystem services. The paper discusses the role which the biodiversity and ecosystems discourse should be playing in shaping the development and environmental policy debate across academic, social, and policy sectors. Refs 18. Figs 4.
Keywords:
biosphere, ecological crisis, biodiversity, dynamic stability system, concept of sustainable development
Downloads
Download data is not yet available.
References
Литература
Алексеев, А. С., 2000. Типизация фанерозойских событий массового вымирания организмов, в: Вестн. Моск. ун-та 4, 6–14.
Бродский, А. К., 2012. Ускользающая реальность. Прошлое, настоящее и будущее биоразнообразия. ДЕАН, Санкт-Петербург.
Бродский, А. К., 2016. Биоразнообразие: структура, проблемы и перспективы сохранения, в: Аспекты биоразнообразия, в: Сб. тр. Зоологического музея МГУ 54, 380–396.
Вернадский, В. И., 1989. Биосфера и ноосфера. Наука, Москва.
Вернадский, В. И., 1994. Живое вещество и биосфера. Мысль, Москва.
Глобальная перспектива в области биоразнообразия 3, 2010. Секретариат Конвенции о биологическом разнообразии, Монреаль.
Еськов, К. Ю., 2004. История Земли и жизни на ней. НЦ ЭНАС, Москва.
Жерихин, В. В., 2003. Избранные труды по палеоэкологии и филоценогенетике. Товарищество научных изданий КМК, Москва.
Кравчук, М. А., Красков, Ю. И., Малинин, В. Н., 2009. Глобальный экологический кризис: стратегия выживания, в: Общество. Среда. Развитие, 1, 194–205.
Левченко, В. Ф., 2004. Эволюция биосферы до и после происхождения человека. Наука, Санкт-Петербург.
Левченко, В. Ф., 2011. Три этапа эволюции жизни на Земле. Lamberet Academic Publishing, Bonn.
Яблоков, А. В., Левченко, В. Ф., Керженцев, А. С., 2014. Переход к управляемой эволюции биосферы, в: Наука в России 4, 48–54.
Яблоков, А. В., Левченко, В. Ф., Керженцев, А. С., 2015. Выход есть: переход к управляемой эволюции биосферы, в: Philosophy & Cosmology 14, 92–118.
Bobylev, N., 2009. Mainstreaming Sustainable Development into a City’s Master Plan: a Case of Urban Underground Space Use, in: Land Use Policy 26, 4, 1128–1137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.02.003" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.02.003
Bobylev, N., 2010. Ecosystem Services in the Context of Human Development, in: Liotta, P. H., et al. (Eds) Achieving Environmental Security: Ecosystem Services and Human Welfare. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 183–205.
Bobylev, N., 2013. Urban physical infrastructure adaptation to climate change, in: Saulnier, J. B., Varella, M. D. (Eds), Global Change, Energy Issues and Regulation Policies, Integrated Science & Technology Program 2. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 77–102.
Fordham, D. A., Akçakaya, H. R., Alroy, J., Saltré, F., Wigley, T. M. L., Brook, B. W., 2016. Predicting and mitigating future biodiversity loss using long-term ecological proxies, in: Nature Climate Change 6, 909–916.
Wende, W., Bond, A., Bobylev, N., Stratmann, L., 2012. Climate change mitigation and adaptation in strategic environmental assessment, in: Environmental Impact Assessment Rev. 32, 88–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2011.04.003" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2011.04.003
References
Alekseev, A. S., 2000. Tipizatsiia fanerozoiskikh sobytii massovogo vymiraniia organizmov [Typification of Phanerozoic events of the mass extinctions of organisms], in: Vestnik Mosk. un-ta 4, 6–14. (in Russian)
Bobylev, N., 2009. Mainstreaming Sustainable Development into a City’s Master Plan: a Case of Urban Underground Space Use, in: Land Use Policy 26, 4, 1128–1137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.02.003" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.02.003
Bobylev, N., 2010. Ecosystem Services in the Context of Human Development. Liotta, P. H., et al. (Eds) Achieving Environmental Security: Ecosystem Services and Human Welfare. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 183–205.
Bobylev, N., 2013. Urban physical infrastructure adaptation to climate change. Saulnier, J. B., Varella, M. D. (Eds), Global Change, Energy Issues and Regulation Policies, Integrated Science & Technology Program 2, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 77–102, in: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6661-7_4" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6661-7_4
Brodskii, A. K., 2012. Uskol’zaiushchaia real’nost’. Proshloe, nastoiashchee i budushchee bioraznoobraziia [The escaping reality. Past, present and future of biodiversity]. DEAN, Saint-Petersburg. (in Russian)
Brodskii, A. K., 2016. Bioraznoobrazie: struktura, problemy i perspektivy sokhraneniia [Biodiversity: structure, problems and perspectives of conservation], in: Aspekty bioraznoobraziia. Sbornik trudov Zoologicheskogo muzeia MGU [Collection of works of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University] 54, Moscow, 380–396. (in Russian)
Es’kov, K. Iu., 2004. Istoriia zemli i zhizni na nei [The history of the Earth and life on it]. NTs ENAS Publ., Moscow. (in Russian)
Fordham, D. A., Akçakaya, H. R., Alroy, J., Saltré, F., Wigley, T. M. L., Brook, B. W., 2016. Predicting and mitigating future biodiversity loss using long-term ecological proxies, in: Nature Climate Change 6, 909–916.
Kravchuk, M. A., Kraskov, Iu. I., Malinin, V. N., 2009. Global’nyi ekologicheskii krizis: strategiia vyzhivaniia [The global environmental crisis: a survival strategy], in: Obshchestvo. Sreda. Razvitie [Society. Environment. Development] 1, 194–205. (in Russian)
Levchenko, V. F., 2004. Evoliutsiia biosfery do i posle proiskhozhdeniia cheloveka [Evolution of the biosphere before and after human origin]. Nauka, St. Petersburg. (in Russian)
Levchenko, V. F., 2011. Tri etapa evoliutsii zhizni na Zemle [Three stages of the evolution of life on Earth]. Lamberet Academic Publishing, Bonn. (in Russian)
Global’naia perspektiva v oblasti bioraznoobraziia 3 [Global Biodiversity Outlook 3], 2010. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal (in Russian)
Vernadskii, V. I., 1989. Biosfera i noosfera [Biosphere and noosphere]. Nauka, Moscow. (in Russian)
Vernadskii, V. I., 1994. Zhivoe veshchestvo i biosfera [Living matter and biosphere]. Mysl’, Moscow. (in Russian)
Wende, W., Bond, A., Bobylev, N., Stratmann, L., 2012. Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Strategic Environmental Assessment, in: Environmental Impact Assessment Review 32, 1, 88–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2011.04.003" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2011.04.003
Yablokov, A. V., Levchenko, V. F., Kerzhentsev, A. S., 2014. Perekhod k upravliaemoi evoliutsii biosfery [The transition to a controlled evolution of the biosphere], in: Nauka v Rossii [Science in Russia] 4, 48–54. (in Russian)
Yablokov, A. V., Levchenko, V. F., Kerzhentsev, A. S., 2015. Perekhod k upravliaemoi evoliutsii biosfery [Essays of Biospherology 1. There is a way: the transition to a controlled evolution of the biosphere], in: Philosophy & Cosmology 14, 92–118. (in Russian)
Zherikhin, V. V., 2003. Izbrannye trudy po paleoekologii i filotsenogenetike [Transition to the controlled evolution of the biosphere]. Tovarishchestvo nauchnykh izdanii KMK [The Partnership of Scientific Publication of KMK], Moscow. (in Russian)
Downloads
Published
2017-12-28
How to Cite
Бродский, А. К. and Бобылев, Н. Г. (2017) “Biodiversity and overcoming the contemporary environmental crisis: A discussion on anthropocentric and ecosystem-based approaches to sustainable development”, Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences, 62(3), pp. 237–253. doi: 10.21638/11701/spbu07.2017.302.
Issue
Section
Articles
License
Articles of "Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences" are open access distributed under the terms of the License Agreement with Saint Petersburg State University, which permits to the authors unrestricted distribution and self-archiving free of charge.
