| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 371 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
One grand organic whole / Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker -- Our sustainable retreat / James Lovelock -- How the biosphere works / Tyler Volk -- Water Gaia : 3.5 thousand million years of wetness on planet earth / Stephan Harding and Lynn Margulis -- Gaia and evolution / Timothy M. Lenton and Hywel T.P. Williams -- Forest systems and Gaia theory / H. Bruce Rinker -- Gaia and biodiversity / Stephan Harding -- Global warming, rapid climate change, and renewable energy solutions for Gaia / Donald W. Aitken -- Gaia's freshwater : an oncoming crisis / Barbara Harwood -- Deep time lags : lessons from Pleistocene ecology / Connie Barlow -- From the land ethic to the earth ethic : Aldo Leopold and the Gaia hypothesis / J. Baird Callicott -- Principles of Gaian governance : a rough sketch / Karen Litfin -- In the depths of a breathing planet : Gaia and the transformation of experience / David Abram -- Sustainability and an earth operating system for Gaia / Tim Foresman -- The Gaian generation : a new approach to environmental learning / Mitchell Thomashow -- Gaia theory : model and metaphor for the twenty-first century / Martin Ogle -- Neocybernetics of Gaia : the emergence of second-order Gaia theory / Bruce Clarke -- Intimations of Gaia / Eileen Crist -- Gaia going forward / Eugene Linden. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| 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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Gaia hypothesis.
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Climatic changes.
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Environmental ethics.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
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NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
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Climatic changes. (OCoLC)fst00864229
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Environmental ethics. (OCoLC)fst00912979
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Gaia hypothesis. (OCoLC)fst00937049
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| Added Author |
Crist, Eileen, 1961-
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Rinker, H. Bruce.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gaia in turmoil. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010 9780262033756 (DLC) 2009007502 (OCoLC)313017382 |
| ISBN |
9780262258692 (electronic bk.) |
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0262258692 (electronic bk.) |
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