Gaia’s Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth
Autor Tyler Volken Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781461274520
ISBN-10: 1461274524
Pagini: 292
Ilustrații: XVII, 269 p.
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Editura: Springer
Colecția Copernicus
Locul publicării:New York, NY, United States
ISBN-10: 1461274524
Pagini: 292
Ilustrații: XVII, 269 p.
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Editura: Springer
Colecția Copernicus
Locul publicării:New York, NY, United States
Public țintă
Popular/generalCuprins
FANTASTIC VOYAGES. A view from above. A view from within.- GAIA AS HOLARCHY. Mats of microbes. Inward and outward causation. Planetary problems and opportunities.- OUTER LIGHT, INNER FIRE. Inclines of light. Architectures of heat. Feedbacks between life and climate.- PRIMARY SUBSTANCES OF GAIA. Air. Water. Earth. Wood.- GEOMETRIES FOR GLOBAL METABOLISM. Interpenetrations. Sheets, tubes, and tiny spheres. A spectrum of borders.- WORLD WIDE GENES. Collective green. Little enzymes that run the world.- BIOGEOCHEMICAL SYMPHONY. Carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, etc. Elemental mergings and partings. A paradox of Gaia's closure.- MOMENTS OF TRANSFORMATION. Internal thresholds. Jolts from space.- ARROWS IN THE LIFE OF GAIA. Persistence. Self-evolution. Evolution of the holarchy.- EPILOGUE: HUMANITY AS A SUBSTANCE OF GAIA.
Recenzii
"...an outstanding contribution to global ecology. The book is very well written and easy for a broadly educated audience to follow. ...I read it as an exciting novel." Nature