{"id":7116,"date":"2026-07-21T14:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=7116"},"modified":"2026-07-21T14:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:09:51","slug":"vladimir-vernadsky-as-a-pioneer-of-planetary-sustainability-thought","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/chapter\/vladimir-vernadsky-as-a-pioneer-of-planetary-sustainability-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Vernadsky as a Pioneer of Planetary Sustainability Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In contemporary debates on sustainable development, the historical and philosophical roots of planetary thinking are often overlooked. One of the early and visionary contributors to this discourse was Vladimir Vernadsky (1863\u20131945), whose concepts of the biosphere and noosphere offer an approach to the Earth that integrates scientific insight with ethical responsibility. Although Earth system science did not yet exist in his time, Vernadsky\u2019s concepts of the biosphere and noosphere anticipated a systemic understanding of the Earth as shaped by both natural processes and human thought. His idea of the noosphere\u2014the realm of reason and scientific activity\u2014 presents a model of global transformation grounded in knowledge, responsibility, and the evolving relationship between humanity and the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In contemporary debates on sustainable development, the historical and philosophical roots of planetary thinking are often overlooked. One of the early and visionary contributors to this discourse was Vladimir Vernadsky (1863\u20131945), whose concepts of the biosphere and noosphere offer an approach to the Earth that integrates scientific insight with ethical responsibility. Although Earth system science &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6861,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-7116","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/7116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}