Biotic Regulation and Hydrological Cycle

Victor Georgievich Gorshkov, Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, leading researcher of the Theoretical Physics Division of the Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute. He is the author of the concept of biotic regulation of the environment, which quantifies the stabilizing effect of natural ecosystems on the environment and climate (developed by the mid-1990s, when he lectured at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University), and of the theory of the biotic pump of atmospheric moisture (2005). He received the 1997 “Green Man” award for the monograph “Physical and Biological Foundations of the Stability of Life” and was an honorary member of the International Expert Group on Earth System Preservation.

• Makarieva A. M., Gorshkov V. G., Startsev A. A. “New Challenges Facing Science”, Energy: Economics, Technology, Ecology, 2017, No. 11, pp. 2–13 (authors' English translation: “New goals for fundamental science”).
• Gorshkov V. G., Makarieva A. M., Startsev A. A. “Noospheric Synthesis of Fundamental Science in the Strategy of Humanity’s Transition to a New Paradigm of History”, in: Noospherism, a New Path of Development (collective monograph), 2017, pp. 296–301.

• Startsev A. A., Gorshkov V. G., Makarieva A. M. “Lakes, Forests and Electric Power of Eurasia: Towards a New Global Environmental Platform and Refined Environmental Priorities for Russia’s International Cooperation”, Russian Economic Journal, 2019, No. 1, pp. 75–83.