Gaia in Turmoil : Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis.
Title:
Gaia in Turmoil : Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis.
Author:
Crist, Eileen.
ISBN:
9780262258692
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (391 pages)
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 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.
Abstract:
Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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