Description
This landmark work presents the Gaia hypothesis: the idea that Earth’s living organisms, oceans, atmosphere, and physical environment interact as a vast, self-regulating system. Drawing on insights from biology, geology, atmospheric science, and ecology, it explores how feedback between life and its surroundings can help maintain conditions suitable for life. The book also considers the pressures modern human activity places on this planetary balance, inviting readers to rethink humanity’s place within the living Earth. Clear, provocative, and interdisciplinary, it remains an influential contribution to environmental thought and systems science.
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paperback
Oxford University Press
Published Jan 1, 2000
148 pages
ISBN: 9780192862181
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First Published
1979
Language
nld
Translation
From: eng
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