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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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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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 371 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Line drawings, black & white, Tables, black & white, Figures, Charts. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2009007502 Type of material Book Main title 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. Published/Created Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010. Description xvi, 371 p. : ill.; 23 cm. ISBN 9780262033756 (hardcover: alk. paper) 0262033755 (hardcover: alk. paper) 9780262513524 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0262513528 (pbk. : alk. paper) LC classification QH331. G224 2010 Related names Crist, Eileen, 1961-Rinker, H. Bruce. Contents One grand organic whole / Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker--Our sustainable retreat / James Lovelock--How the biosphere works / Tyler Volk--Water Gaia: 3.5 thousand million years of wetness on planet earth / Stephan Harding and Lynn Margulis--Gaia and evolution / Timothy M. Lenton and Hywel T.P. Williams--Forest systems and Gaia theory / H. Bruce Rinker--Gaia and biodiversity / Stephan Harding--Global warming, rapid climate change, and renewable energy solutions for Gaia / Donald W. Aitken--Gaia's freshwater: an oncoming crisis / Barbara Harwood--Deep time lags: lessons from Pleistocene ecology / Connie Barlow--From the land ethic to the earth ethic: Aldo Leopold and the Gaia hypothesis / J. Baird Callicott--Principles of Gaian governance: a rough sketch / Karen Litfin--In the depths of a breathing planet: Gaia and the transformation of experience / David Abram--Sustainability and an earth operating system for Gaia / Tim Foresman--The Gaian generation: a new approach to environmental learning / Mitchell Thomashow--Gaia theory: model and metaphor for the twenty-first century / Martin Ogle--Neocybernetics of Gaia: the emergence of second-order Gaia theory / Bruce Clarke--Intimations of Gaia / Eileen Crist--Gaia going forward / Eugene Linden. LC Subjects Gaia hypothesis. Climatic changes. Environmental ethics. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 577 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn313017382
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New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 390 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Line drawings, black & white, Tables, black & white, Figures, Charts.
