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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (391 p.)
• Disciplina: 577
• Soggetto topico: Gaia hypothesis; Climatic changes; Environmental ethics
• Soggetto non controllato: ENVIRONMENT/General
• Altri autori: CristEileen <1961-> RinkerH. Bruce
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gaia in turmoil
• ISBN: 0-262-25811-0; 1-282-69439-1; 9786612694394; 0-262-25869-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791291503321
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