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Author(s): Stephen H. Schneider, James R. Miller, Eileen Crist, Penelope J. Boston, James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, Pedro Ruiz Torres
ISBN(s): 9780262194983, 0262194988
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Year: 2004
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ISBN 10: 0262194988

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Author: Stephen H. Schneider, James R. Miller, Eileen Crist, Penelope J. Boston

Scientists Debate Gaia is a multidisciplinary reexamination of the Gaia hypothesis, which was introduced by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the early 1970s. The Gaia hypothesis holds that Earth’s physical and biological processes are linked to form a complex, self-regulating system and that life has affected this system over time. Until a few decades ago, most of the earth sciences viewed the planet through disciplinary lenses: biology, chemistry, geology, atmospheric and ocean studies. The Gaia hypothesis, on the other hand, takes a very broad interdisciplinary approach. Its most controversial aspect suggests that life actively participates in shaping the physical and chemical environment on which it depends in a way that optimizes the conditions for life. Despite initial dismissal of the Gaian approach as New Age philosophy, it has today been incorporated into mainstream interdisciplinary scientific theory, as seen in its strong influence on the field of Earth System Science. Scientists Debate Gaia provides a fascinating, multi-faceted examination of Gaia as science and addresses significant criticism of, and changes in, the hypothesis since its introduction.In the book, 53 contributors explore the scientific, philosophical, and theoretical foundations of Gaia. They address such topics as the compatibility of natural selection and Gaian processes, Gaia and the “thermodynamics of life,” the role of computer models in Gaian science (from James Lovelock’s famous but controversial “Daisyworld” to more sophisticated models that use the techniques of artificial life), pre-Socratic precedents for the idea of a “Living Earth,” and the climate of the Amazon Basin as a Gaian system.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Clarifying Gaia: Regulation with or without Natural Selection

Chapter 2 Gaia Is Life in a Wasteworld of By-products

Chapter 3 Models and Geophysiological Hypotheses

Chapter 4 Gaia: Toward a Thermodynamics of Life

Chapter 5 Gaia, Extended Organisms, and Emergent Homeostasis

Chapter 6 Homeostatic Gaia: An Ecologist’s Perspective on the Possibility of Regulation

Chapter 7 Phosphorus, a Servant Faithful to Gaia? Biosphere Remediation Rather Than Regulation

Chapter 8 Self-Regulation of Ocean Composition by the Biosphere

Chapter 9 A New Biogeochemical Earth System Model for the Phanerozoic Eon

Chapter 10 Gaia and Glaciation: Lipalian (Vendian) Environmental Crisis

Chapter 11 Does Life Drive Disequilibrium in the Biosphere?

Chapter 12 Biotic Plunder: Control of the Environment by Biological Exhaustion of Resources

Chapter 13 Gaia: The Living Earth—2,500 Years of Precedents in Natural Science and Philosophy

Chapter 14 Concerned with Trifles? A Geophysiological Reading of Charles Darwin’s Last Book

Chapter 15 Gradient Reduction Theory: Thermodynamics and the Purpose of Life

Chapter 16 Gaia and Complexity

Chapter 17 Gaia and Observer Self-selection

Chapter 18 Taming Gaia: The History of the Dutch Lowlands as an Analogy to Global Change

Chapter 19 Gaia and the Human Species

Chapter 20 Daisyworld Homeostasis and the Earth System

Chapter 21 Salvaging the Daisyworld Parable under the Dynamic Area Fraction Framework

Chapter 22 Food Web Complexity Enhances Ecological and Gaian Ecosystem Model

Chapter 23 Gaia in the Machine: The Artificial Life Approach

Chapter 24 On Causality and Ice Age Deglaciations

Chapter 25 Amazonian Biogeography as a Test for Gaia

Chapter 26 Modeling Feedbacks Between Water and Vegetation in the North African Climate System

Chapter 27 Extraterrestrial Gaias

Chapter 28 The Tinto River, an Extreme Gaian Environment

Chapter 29 Climate and the Amazon—a Gaian System?

Chapter 30 On the Co-evolution of Life and Its Environment

Chapter 31 Stability and Instability in Ecological Systems: Gaia Theory and Evolutionary Biology

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