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The international space year: Priorities and perspectives

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Il Nuovo Cimento C

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Principal purposes of the International Space Year (ISY) have been discussed. In view of the increasing significance of ecological problems it is becoming clear that there have to be two key directions of the ISY programmes: 1) various problems relevant to the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (global climate change, global biosphere dynamics, regional ecological problems: desertification, forest decline, acid rains etc.); 2) comparative planetology. One of the most urgent problems is connected with the accomplishment, of the «Mission to Planet Earth» which has to be based on the creation of an optimal global system of satellite and conventional ecological observations (especially for various typical ecosystems). Studies of the other planets have to be coordinated with requirements of further investigations in the field of the Earth's ecology.

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Kondratyev, K.Y. The international space year: Priorities and perspectives. Il Nuovo Cimento C 13, 835–846 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02512000

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