Gaia
A New Look at Life on Earth
(Sprache: Englisch)
Gaia, in which James Lovelock puts forward his inspirational and controversial idea that the Earth functions as a single organism, with life influencing planetary processes to form a self-regulating system aiding its own survival, is now a classic work that...
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Gaia, in which James Lovelock puts forward his inspirational and controversial idea that the Earth functions as a single organism, with life influencing planetary processes to form a self-regulating system aiding its own survival, is now a classic work that continues to provoke heated scientific debate.
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Gaia, in which James Lovelock puts forward his inspirational and controversial idea that the Earth functions as a single organism, with life influencing planetary processes to form a self-regulating system aiding its own survival, is now a classic work that continues to provoke heated scientific debate.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Gaia “
- Preface
- 1: Introductory
- 2: In the beginning
- 3: The recognition of Gaia
- 4: Cybernetics
- 5: The contemporary atmosphere
- 6: The sea
- 7: Gaia and Man: the problem of pollution
- 8: Living within Gaia
- 9: Epilogue
- Definitions and explanations of terms
- Further reading
Autoren-Porträt von James Lovelock
James Lovelock is the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). His books include Gaia: a new look at life on Earth (OUP, 1979); The Ages of Gaia (WW Norton, 1988); Gaia: the practical science of planetary medicine (Gaia Books, 1991), and The Revenge of Gaia (Allen Lane/Penguin 2006). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974 and in 1975 received the Tswett Medal for Chromatography. Earlier he received a CIBA Foundation Prize for research into Ageing. In 1980 he received the American Chemical Society's award for Chromatography and in 1986 the Silver Medal and Prize of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory. In 1988 he was a recipient of the Norbert Gerbier Prize of the World Meteorological Organization, and in 1990 was awarded the first Amsterdam Prize for the Environment by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996 he received the Volvo Prize for the Environment and in 1997 the Blue Planet Prize. Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: James Lovelock
- 2016, 176 Seiten, 8 Abbildungen, Masse: 12,8 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198784880
- ISBN-13: 9780198784883
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.03.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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