The Future of Life and the Future of our Civilization - Burdyuzha, Vladimir; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006)
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.
Keywords: Medicine; Earth sciences; Philosophy and social sciences; Gravitation; Biomedicine, general; Earth Sciences, general; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Medicine/Public Health, general; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory