Abstract

In connection with the development of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, key aspects of the environment have been discussed that must specify the major objectives of the IGBP as a programme on studies of the interactive evolution of the geosphere and biosphere in conditions of an increased anthropogenic impact. Taking into account extensive international programmes (it concerns, in particular, the World Climate Programme as well as the Man and Biosphere Programme), the problem of global biospherical cycles of carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, phosphorus, and some other elements must be considered a key aspect of the IGBP. The processes determining the formation of biogeochemical cycles are responsible for anthropogenically induced changes in the atmospheric composition which, in their turn, can cause considerable changes in the climate and a depletion of the ozone layer which protects the biosphere. Ideas have been expressed of a global observational system to monitor the development of processes in the geosphere and biosphere.

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