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Gaia in turmoil : climate change, biodepletion, and earth ethics in an age of crisis / edited by Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker ; foreword by Bill McKibben.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gaia hypothesis.
- Climatic changes.
- Environmental ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (391 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.
- Contents:
- 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 Gaia15 The Gaian Generation; 16 Gaia Theory; 17 Neocybernetics of Gaia; 18 Intimations of Gaia; V Afterword; 19 Gaia Going Forward; About the Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-25811-0
- 1-282-69439-1
- 9786612694394
- 0-262-25869-2
- OCLC:
- 503333347
- Publisher Number:
- 3035495
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