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| Author | : Charles Cockell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2008-02-28 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521493918 |
This concise textbook combines Earth and biological sciences to explore the co-evolution of the Earth and life over geological time.
| Author | : Fritjof Capra |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 513 |
| Release | : 2014-04-10 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1107011361 |
The first volume to integrate life's biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions into a single, coherent framework.
| Author | : Will Steffen |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2005-12-29 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3540266070 |
Global Change and the Earth System describes what is known about the Earth system and the impact of changes caused by humans. It considers the consequences of these changes with respect to the stability of the Earth system and the well-being of humankind; as well as exploring future paths towards Earth-system science in support of global sustainability. The results presented here are based on 10 years of research on global change by many of the world's most eminent scholars. This valuable volume achieves a new level of integration and interdisciplinarity in treating global change.
| Author | : James Lovelock |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0198784880 |
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.
| Author | : Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780262195133 |
This book presents the complete story of the inseparably intertwined evolution of life and matter on earth, focussing on four major topics. It analyzes the driving forces behind global change and uses this knowledge to propose principles for global stewardship.
| Author | : Philippe Bertrand |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 573 |
| Release | : 2021-04-21 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3030677737 |
Earth is, to our knowledge, the only life-bearing body in the Solar System. This extraordinary characteristic dates back almost 4 billion years. How to explain that Earth is teeming with organisms and that this has lasted for so long? What makes Earth different from its sister planets Mars and Venus? The habitability of a planet is its capacity to allow the emergence of organisms. What astronomical and geological conditions concurred to make Earth habitable 4 billion years ago, and how has it remained habitable since? What have been the respective roles of non-biological and biological characteristics in maintaining the habitability of Earth? This unique book answers the above questions by considering the roles of organisms and ecosystems in the Earth System, which is made of the non-living and living components of the planet. Organisms have progressively occupied all the habitats of the planet, diversifying into countless life forms and developing enormous biomasses over the past 3.6 billion years. In this way, organisms and ecosystems "took over" the Earth System, and thus became major agents in its regulation and global evolution. There was co-evolution of the different components of the Earth System, leading to a number of feedback mechanisms that regulated long-term Earth conditions. For millennia, and especially since the Industrial Revolution nearly 300 years ago, humans have gradually transformed the Earth System. Technological developments combined with the large increase in human population have led, in recent decades, to major changes in the Earth's climate, soils, biodiversity and quality of air and water. After some successes in the 20th century at preventing internationally environmental disasters, human societies are now facing major challenges arising from climate change. Some of these challenges are short-term and others concern the thousand-year evolution of the Earth's climate. Humans should become the stewards of Earth.
| Author | : Kendrick Frazier |
| Publisher | : Time Life Medical |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780809445295 |
Briefly outlines the history of astronomy, recounts the origins of our solar system, and summarizes current knowledge about the sun, moon, stars and planets
| Author | : Robert M. Hazen |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2013-07-30 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0143123645 |
Hailed by The New York Times for writing “with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,” nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet’s living and nonliving spheres. With an astrobiologist’s imagination, a historian’s perspective, and a naturalist’s eye, Hazen calls upon twenty-first-century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and enabled scientists to envision Earth’s many iterations in vivid detail—from the mile-high lava tides of its infancy to the early organisms responsible for more than two-thirds of the mineral varieties beneath our feet. Lucid, controversial, and on the cutting edge of its field, The Story of Earth is popular science of the highest order. "A sweeping rip-roaring yarn of immense scope, from the birth of the elements in the stars to meditations on the future habitability of our world." -Science "A fascinating story." -Bill McKibben
| Author | : Kent C. Condie |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 593 |
| Release | : 2011-08-22 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0123852285 |
Earth as an Evolving Planetary System, Second Edition, explores key topics and questions relating to the evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle over the last four billion years. This updated edition features exciting new information on Earth and planetary evolution and examines how all subsystems in our planet—crust, mantle, core, atmosphere, oceans and life—have worked together and changed over time. It synthesizes data from the fields of oceanography, geophysics, planetology, and geochemistry to address Earth's evolution. This volume consists of 10 chapters, including two new ones that deal with the Supercontinent Cycle and on Great Events in Earth history. There are also new and updated sections on Earth's thermal history, planetary volcanism, planetary crusts, the onset of plate tectonics, changing composition of the oceans and atmosphere, and paleoclimatic regimes. In addition, the book now includes new tomographic data tracking plume tails into the deep mantle. This book is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, with a basic knowledge of geology, biology, chemistry, and physics. It also may serve as a reference tool for structural geologists and professionals in related disciplines who want to look at the Earth in a broader perspective. - Kent Condie's corresponding interactive CD, Plate Tectonics and How the Earth Works, can be purchased from Tasa Graphic Arts here: http://www.tasagraphicarts.com/progptearth.html - Two new chapters on the Supercontinent Cycle and on Great Events in Earth history - New and updated sections on Earth's thermal history, planetary volcanism, planetary crusts, the onset of plate tectonics, changing composition of the oceans and atmosphere, and paleoclimatic regimes - Also new in this Second Edition: the lower mantle and the role of the post-perovskite transition, the role of water in the mantle, new tomographic data tracking plume tails into the deep mantle, Euxinia in Proterozoic oceans, The Hadean, A crustal age gap at 2.4-2.2 Ga, and continental growth
| Author | : Iris Fry |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780813527406 |
How did life emerge on Earth? Is there life on other worlds? These questions, until recently confined to the pages of speculative essays and tabloid headlines, are now the subject of legitimate scientific research. This book presents a unique perspective--a combined historical, scientific, and philosophical analysis, which does justice to the complex nature of the subject. The book's first part offers an overview of the main ideas on the origin of life as they developed from antiquity until the twentieth century. The second, more detailed part of the book examines contemporary theories and major debates within the origin-of-life scientific community. Topics include: Aristotle and the Greek atomists' conceptions of the organism Alexander Oparin and J.B.S. Haldane's 1920s breakthrough papers Possible life on Mars?
