Review of Gaia’s Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth, by Tyler Volk.
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Joel D. Gunn, Lecturer (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: In his 1989 treatise on geophysiology, Lovelock
built on the holistic Gaian theory of global biological
self-regulation to propose a physiological
rather than physical perspective of the earth system.
Of special importance in this time of burgeoning
human intervention in the environment are the implications
of a geophysiology for detecting and coping
with anthropogenic impacts on the stability and
viability of the global ecology. For me, it suggested
that danger would be signaled by how hard the system
was working to maintain equilibrium rather
than the sheer quantities of substances such as carbon
in the system.
Review of Gaia’s Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth, by Tyler Volk.
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Quarterly Review of Biology 73:285.
- Language: English
- Date: 1998
- Keywords
- Review, Gaia hypothesis, Ecology, Holistic