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UNINA9910458360503321 |
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Titolo |
Gaia in turmoil [[electronic resource] ] : climate change, biodepletion, and earth ethics in an age of crisis / / edited by Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker ; foreword by Bill McKibben |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-69439-1 |
9786612694394 |
0-262-25869-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (391 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CristEileen <1961-> |
RinkerH. Bruce |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Gaia hypothesis |
Climatic changes - Environmental aspects |
Environmental ethics |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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