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.
| Other author | Crist, Eileen, 1961- |
| Other author | Rinker, H. Bruce. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, |
| Description | xvi, 371 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009007502 |
| ISBN | 9780262033756 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0262033755 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780262513524 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0262513528 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |