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Proposal: International Year of the Biosphere*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

John R. Vallentyne ,
J. R. Strickler  and
Nicholas Polunin
John R. Vallentyne
Affiliation:
Canada Centre for Inland Waters, P.O. Box 5050, Burlington, Ontario L7R 4A6, Canada
J. R. Strickler
Affiliation:
Australian Institute of Marine Science, P.M.B. No 3, M.S.O., Townsville Queensland 4810, Australia
Nicholas Polunin
Affiliation:
Environmental Conservation, 15 Chemin F.-Lehmann, 1218 Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Extract

‘The time is ripe to step up and expand current efforts to understand the great interlocking systems of air, water, and minerals, that nourish the Earth’, wrote Gilbert F. White (President of the International Council of Scientific Unions' Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) and Mostafa K. Tolba (Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme) in Environmental Conservation (Vol. 6, No. 2, p. 88,1979).

Type
Main Papers
Information
Environmental Conservation , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Spring 1980 , pp. 2
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1980

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* Biosphere: The outer ‘envelope’ of the Earth (including its atmosphere) in which life exists; the total ecological system of our planet Earth.