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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. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010. - 1 online resource (xvi, 371 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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


English.

ISBN: 9780262258692 (electronic bk.) 0262258692 (electronic bk.) 9780262033756 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 0262033755 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 9780262513524 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 0262513528 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 1282694391 9781282694392 9786612694394 6612694394

Standard No.: 3035495

Source: 269439 MIL 7845 MIT Press 9780262258692 MIT Press

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015351603 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Gaia hypothesis.
Climatic changes.
Environmental ethics.
Hypothèse Gaïa.
Climat--Changements.
Éthique de l'environnement.
climate change.
SCIENCE--Environmental Science (see also Chemistry--Environmental)
NATURE--Ecosystems & Habitats--Wilderness.
NATURE--Ecology.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Ecology.
Climatic changes.
Environmental ethics.
Gaia hypothesis.

Subjects--Index Terms: ENVIRONMENT/General

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: QH331 / .G224 2010eb

Dewey Class. No.: 577

National Agricultural Library Call No.: QH331 / .G224 2010