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Fossil soils: trace fossils of ecosystems on land and windows on the context of evolution
Published 2022-09-01Subjects: Get full text
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Resurrecting Gaia: harnessing the Free Energy Principle to preserve life as we know it
Published 2023-06-01Subjects: Get full text
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New Constitutionalism for Biosiversity vs. Neoconstitutionalism of Risk
Published 2016-08-01“…Departing from western constitutional paradigms, this groundbreaking constitutionalism revisits the “Gaia hypothesis” and legitimizes a real “social contract” among the people and nature, and instead of considering it as an “object” of ownership, exploitation, or conservation, it regards nature as a legal “subject” and primary source of society itself and the Constitution as its “legal grantor and protector”.…”
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Gaias Game
Published 2014-09-01“…It is not only apparent in Lovelock’s own writing, but also in simulation programs based on the Gaia hypothesis such as the Daisyworld model and the computer game “SimEarth: The Living Planet” (1991). …”
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New Age and Environment: New Forms of Spirituality and Lifestyle in the Context of Secularization?
Published 2023-04-01“…The measurable signs of environmental exploitation and destruction and their consequences for human health, the shift to post-materialist values, and the growth of ethical philosophies (Land ethics, the Gaia Hypothesis, and Deep Ecology) were predictors of global ecological awareness. …”
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Withdrawal back to Earth: Derek Mahon’s Gaian Vision
Published 2024-03-01“…Relying on Bruno Latour’s revision of James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, I show that Mahon’s late poetry represents an attempt to caringly engage the mystery and mystique of the Earth understood as a network of interrelated agents. …”
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Climate change and the single cell
Published 2024-12-01“…Finally, forests and the high albedo of snow-capped mountains and polar ice caps are essential to the Gaia hypothesis of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, which remains a brilliant metaphor despite earlier criticism.…”
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How Anthropocene Might Save the World: Metamorphosis
Published 2022-02-01“…It reinforces the character of “rupture” that the Anthropocene has. The Gaia Hypothesis, which is built from elements of Earth science systems, sees the pressing need for a global system and to overcome the barriers between disciplines. …”
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Earth’s Complexity Is Non-Computable: The Limits of Scaling Laws, Nonlinearity and Chaos
Published 2021-07-01“…Here, we argue that understanding the Earth as a complex system requires a consideration of the Gaia hypothesis: the Earth is a complex system because it instantiates life—and therefore an autopoietic, metabolic-repair (M,R) organization—at a planetary scale. …”
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Who is (Not) Afraid of the Climate Apocalypse? On the Planetary Perspectives of Anthropocene Political Theology through New Images of the Earth
Published 2022-12-01“…Whereas the introduction gives a glimpse into the problem of the Anthropocene, the second section explores Latour's reinterpretation of the “Gaia Hypothesis” in the anti-holistic key through the critique of modernity, theory of agency and novel methodology of geotracing, designed to unravel the organic transactions and links of the so-called critical zone. …”
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The Web of Life: A Critique of Nature, Wilderness, Gaia and the «Common Household»
Published 2024-01-01“…Gaia is short for the Gaia hypothesis of Earth as a living, self-regulating organism. …”
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Permaculture Design: On the Practice of Radical Imagination
Published 2014-09-01“…However it departs from the idea of control inherent to systems theory, drawing instead from the equally popular (and colorful) Gaia hypothesis, which posits Earth as an intelligent, material assembly that modifies thought processes.…”
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