Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century (The MIT Press)
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....
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Leading scientists bring the controversy over Gaia up to date by exploring a broad range of recent thinking on Gaia theory.
ForewordReflections on Gaia1Gaia by any other name71Clarifying Gaia : regulation with or without natural selection152Gaia is life in a wasteworld of byproducts273Models and geophysical hypotheses374Gaia : toward a thermodynamics of life455Gaia, extended organisms, and emergent homeostasis576Homeostatic Gaia : an ecologist's perspective on the possibility of regulation717Phosphorus, a servant faithful to Gaia? : biosphere remediation rather than regulation798Self-regulation of ocean composition by the biosphere939A new biogeochemical earth system model for the phanerozoic eon10110Gaia and glaciation : lipalian (vendian) environmental crisis11511Does life drive disequilibrium in the biosphere?12912Biotic plunder : control of the environment by biological exhaustion of resources13713Gaia : the living earth - 2,500 years of precedents in natural science and philosophy15114Concerned with trifles? : a geophysiological reading of Charles Darwin's last book16115Gradient reduction theory : thermodynamics and the purpose of life17316Gaia and complexity18717Gaia and observer self-selection20118Taming Gaia : the history of the Dutch lowlands as an analogy to global change21119Gaia and the human species22320Daisyworld homeostasis and the earth system23121Salvaging the Daisyworld parable under the dynamic area fraction framework24122Food web complexity enhances ecological and climatic stability in a Gaian ecosystem model25523Gaia in the machine : the artificial life approach26724On causality and ice age deglaciations28125Amazonian biogeography as a test for Gaia29126Modeling feedbacks between water and vegetation in the North African climate system29727Extraterrestrial Gaias30928The Tinto River, an extreme Gaian environment32129Climate and the Amazon - a Gaian system?33530On the co-evolution of life and its environment34331Stability and instability in ecological systems : Gaia theory and evolutionary biology353AppStudying Gaia : the NASA Planetary Biology Internship (PBI) program363
\ From the Publisher"As Lovelock neatly argues in his own essay, even in her finery Gaia was never any more fanciful than her archfoe, the selfish gene. This volume amply shows how she has earned her place in conventional science." Fred Pearce New Scientist\ \
