1st Edition

The Interplay Between the Biosphere and Climate

By Costas A. Varotsos, Yuri A. Mazei Copyright 2026
424 Pages 134 Color & 75 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

The climate issue is at the center of discussions related to the high frequency and greater intensity of devastating natural disasters, establishing a new term: “climate crisis.” This book explores the dialogue between the biosphere and the climate system and analyzes the threats to the biosphere from current climate change. It evaluates existing unsolved problems concerning the changes in the... Read more

1. Basics on Climate and Biosphere.  2. Carbon Cycle and the Biosphere.  3. Ecosystems as Multiscale Complex Systems.  4. The Environment as a Complex System: Applications.  5. Natural Disasters: Threats, Opportunities, and Solutions for the Biosphere. 

Biography

Costas Varotsos is a Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Remote Sensing Letters and the International Journal of Atmosphere and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. His expertise and research include Remote Sensing, Climate-Environmental Dynamics, and Natural Disasters. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and 18 Monographs. He has received many honors and awards from several Academies, Universities, and Research Institutions.

Yuri A. Mazei is a Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia. He is the Deputy-Chief-Editor of the journal Protistology and an editorial board member of the European Journal of Ecology. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and two monographs. He has been awarded a medal for young scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences and an honorary diploma from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.