Notes

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.

Classification

• LCC: QH331
• Dewey Decimal: 577

Book Details

• Language: eng
• Physical Description: xvi, 371 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
• Edition Info: (hardcover : alk. paper)

Subjects

• Outdoors & Nature -- Ecology -- General
• Outdoors & Nature -- Environment -- Ecology
• Outdoors & Nature -- Environment -- Weather
• Outdoors & Nature -- Reference
• Professional & Technical -- Engineering -- Civil -- Environmental -- General
• Professional & Technical -- Professional Science -- Biological Sciences -- Ecology
• Professional & Technical -- Professional Science -- Earth Sciences -- Environmental Science
• Science -- Biological Sciences -- Ecology -- General
• Science -- Earth Sciences -- Climatology -- Climate Changes
• Science -- Earth Sciences -- Environmental Science
• Science -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology -- General
• Science -- Earth Sciences -- Rivers
• Science -- Nature & Ecology -- General
• Gaia hypothesis
• Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects
• Environmental ethics

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