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Gaia in Turmoil : Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (390 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262258692
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gaia in TurmoilDDC classification:
  • 577
LOC classification:
  • QH331.G224 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I Introductory Essays -- 1 One Grand Organic Whole -- 2 Our Sustainable Retreat -- II The Science of Gaia -- 3 How the Biosphere Works -- 4 Water Gaia -- 5 Gaia and Evolution -- 6 Forest Systems and Gaia Theory -- III Imperiled Biosphere -- 7 Gaia and Biodiversity -- 8 Global Warming, Rapid Climate Change, and Renewable Energy Solutions for Gaia -- 9 Gaia's Freshwater -- 10 Deep Time Lags -- IV Gaian Ethics and Education -- 11 From the Land Ethic to the Earth Ethic -- 12 Principles of Gaian Governance -- 13 In the Depths of a Breathing Planet -- 14 Sustainability and an Earth Operating System for Gaia -- 15 The Gaian Generation -- 16 Gaia Theory -- 17 Neocybernetics of Gaia -- 18 Intimations of Gaia -- V Afterword -- 19 Gaia Going Forward -- About the Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I Introductory Essays -- 1 One Grand Organic Whole -- 2 Our Sustainable Retreat -- II The Science of Gaia -- 3 How the Biosphere Works -- 4 Water Gaia -- 5 Gaia and Evolution -- 6 Forest Systems and Gaia Theory -- III Imperiled Biosphere -- 7 Gaia and Biodiversity -- 8 Global Warming, Rapid Climate Change, and Renewable Energy Solutions for Gaia -- 9 Gaia's Freshwater -- 10 Deep Time Lags -- IV Gaian Ethics and Education -- 11 From the Land Ethic to the Earth Ethic -- 12 Principles of Gaian Governance -- 13 In the Depths of a Breathing Planet -- 14 Sustainability and an Earth Operating System for Gaia -- 15 The Gaian Generation -- 16 Gaia Theory -- 17 Neocybernetics of Gaia -- 18 Intimations of Gaia -- V Afterword -- 19 Gaia Going Forward -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.

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