Results of Engineering Development of the Carbon Dioxide Reduction Assembly for a Space Station Integrated Life Support System

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.M. Samsonov ◽  
E.A. Kurmazenko ◽  
L.I. Gavrilov ◽  
N.S. Farafonov ◽  
I.V. Dokunin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Support System ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Space Station ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Reduction ◽  
Life Support System ◽  
Engineering Development

Conceivable Ecodisasters and the Reykjavik Imperative

1979 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Polunin
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Support System ◽  
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Life Support System ◽  
Wide Perspective ◽  
Loss Of Genetic Diversity ◽  
Biotic Invasion

An ecodisaster is here characterized as ‘any major and widespread misfortune to, or seriously detrimental change operating through, Man's or Nature's habitat—whether or not it is engendered by Man himself, and whether or not it affects him directly’.From this wide perspective but leaving aside such ‘old favourites’ as world famine and nuclear holocaust, and not yet dealing with population swarming and biotic invasion, are selected the following half-dozen items as being particularly pertinent: (1) Build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide; (2) Disappearance of more and more of the life-support system; (3) Water shortage and salt build-up with continuing irrigation; (4) Loss of genetic diversity; (5) Increasing complexity of human existence and health-hazards; and (6) The Beirut syndrome of human slaughter.

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