Foreword | p. ix |
Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Introductory Essays | |
One Grand Organic Whole | p. 3 |
Our Sustainable Retreat | p. 21 |
The Science of Gaia | |
How the Biosphere Works | p. 27 |
Water Gaia | p. 41 |
Thousand Million Years of Wetness on Planet Earth | |
Gaia and Evolution | p. 61 |
Forest Systems and Gaia Theory | p. 85 |
Imperiled Biosphere | |
Gaia and Biodiversity | p. 107 |
Global Warming, Rapid Climate Change, and Renewable Energy Solutions for Gaia | p. 125 |
Gaia's Freshwater: An Oncoming Crisis | p. 151 |
Deep Time Lags: Lessons from Pleistocene Ecology | p. 165 |
Gaian Ethics and Education | |
From the Land Ethic to the Earth Ethic | p. 177 |
Aldo Leopold and the Gaia Hypothesis | |
Principles of Gaian Governance: A Rough Sketch | p. 195 |
In the Depths of a Breathing Planet | p. 221 |
Gaia and the Transformation of Experience | |
Sustainability and an Earth Operating System for Gaia | p. 243 |
The Gaian Generation | p. 255 |
A New Approach to Environmental Learning | |
Gaia Theory | p. 275 |
Model and Metaphor for the Twenty-first Century | |
Neocybernetics of Gaia | p. 293 |
The Emergence of Second-Order Gaia Theory | |
Intimations of Gaia | p. 315 |
Afterword | |
Gaia Going Forward | p. 337 |
About the Contributors | p. 343 |
Index | p. 347 |
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