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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458360503321

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-69439-1

9786612694394

0-262-25869-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CristEileen <1961->

RinkerH. Bruce

Disciplina

577

Soggetti

Gaia hypothesis

Climatic changes - Environmental aspects

Environmental ethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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