03270nam 2200685Ia 450 991045836050332120200520144314.01-282-69439-197866126943940-262-25869-23035495(CKB)2560000000007128(EBL)3339087(OCoLC)503333347(SSID)ssj0000338004(PQKBManifestationID)11273674(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000338004(PQKBWorkID)10295656(PQKB)11566601(MiAaPQ)EBC3339087(OCoLC)503333347(OCoLC)643588846(OCoLC)646839591(OCoLC)692284204(OCoLC)816568669(OCoLC)961630085(OCoLC)962648182(OCoLC)966182015(OCoLC)988429822(OCoLC)991965761(OCoLC)1055373613(OCoLC)1058048374(OCoLC)1058134000(OCoLC)1065676678(OCoLC)1081198038(OCoLC-P)503333347(MaCbMITP)7845(Au-PeEL)EBL3339087(CaPaEBR)ebr10340970(CaONFJC)MIL269439(EXLCZ)99256000000000712820090226d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGaia 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 McKibbenCambridge, Mass. MIT Press20091 online resource (391 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-262-51352-8 0-262-03375-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Planet14 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; IndexEssays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.Gaia hypothesisClimatic changesEnvironmental aspectsEnvironmental ethicsElectronic books.Gaia hypothesis.Climatic changesEnvironmental aspects.Environmental ethics.577Crist Eileen1961-1048063Rinker H. Bruce1038061MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458360503321Gaia in turmoil2476059UNINA