Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Environmental Microcatastrophes -- Phase portraits -- Reflection from bisector -- Simple population processes -- More complex population processes -- A case of erroneous ecological measures -- Classification of outbreaks -- Classification of population processes -- REFERENCES -- 2. Cancer as a Catastrophe in Organisms -- Diffuse cancer -- Solid tumors -- Crossing the tissue interface -- Some special cases -- Prospects: prophylaxis of solid tumors -- REFERENCES -- 3. Life and Atmosphere -- Earth's heat budget and surface temperature -- Earth's biota and a new stable temperature point -- Life and carbon dioxide -- Stable points of life -- Specified behavior of the curve C(T ): effect of glaciation -- Global temperature dynamics under the effect of biota -- REFERENCES -- 4. Technosphere-Biosphere Interaction and Global Climate -- Energy use -- Greenhouse effect: controls from technology -- Temperature rise and climate change -- Alternative power sources -- REFERENCES -- 5. Dynamics of Atmospheric Ozone -- Ozone shield -- Ozone layer destruction -- Ozone holes -- Formation mechanisms of ozone holes: hypotheses -- A new method for tracing stratospheric air flows (Kashkin method) -- Global stratospheric dynamics: facts -- A hypothesis of the ozone hole formation in terms of air-flow dynamics -- References -- 6. Closed Ecological Systems and Earth's Biosphere -- Energy in space vehicles -- Life support systems -- Manmade closed biospheres -- Planet Earth as spacecraft -- 1. Stationary civilization -- 2. Closed civilization -- 3. Planet Earth as a spacecraft -- REFERENCES -- 7. Environmental Damage -- Modern man and environment -- Dynamics of environmental damage -- Environmental disaster -- 8. Fining and Environment -- Economy and environment -- REFERENCES -- 9. Market -- Market and optimization of production.

Prime cost -- Free market -- Postulates of free market -- Motives of competition -- Pricing mechanism -- Rent -- Population change -- Quality of commodities -- REFERENCE -- 10. Marketing Dynamics -- Fair competition -- Unfair competition -- 11. Labor Market and Capitalism -- Labor market -- Wages -- Capitalistic production -- Expansion of production -- Quality and technology advance -- Theories of value -- Nature of capitalism -- Social significance of rent -- REFERENCES -- 12. Unemployment Dynamics -- Problem of unemployment -- Earned income -- 13. Objects of Nature as Commodities -- Environment and property -- Competition for resources -- Sharing land: optimum principle -- REFERENCES -- 14. Long-term Motivation -- Parameter of egoism -- Planting forest -- 15. Democracy in the Light of Electoral Procedures -- Representative government -- Proportional and majority electoral systems -- Extreme case of a two-party system -- Conventionality of electoral procedures -- Method of statistical sample -- The Zipf-Pareto law -- The logic of decision making -- Comment -- A model of competition for votes between two similar parties -- REFERENCES -- Conclusion -- Index.