A Manifesto for Conceptual Thinking in Environmental Disciplines -- A Conceptual Approach to Environmental Science -- A Short Chapter on the Definition of Definitions -- Everything is connected (but some things are more connected than are others) -- Complex Environmental Systems -- All or nothing? Or, what, exactly, is an environment? -- Life and environment: the indissoluble link -- Gaia, the Noösphere, and the Anthropocene -- The Anthropocene and the Concept of Limits -- Limited and limiting models -- Collapse and the Anthropocene -- How to conceive a (climate) crisis -- Risking Life: Basics of Biological Diversity -- Risking life: Is the Sixth Extinction Catastrophic? -- Conceiving a Future: the need for interdisciplinarity -- The Three Futures.
Summary:
"The topic of how humans have transformed the planet is an old one, but consciousness about how thoroughly we as a species have accomplished this transformation has only emerged in recent years. Thus, the theme in this volume is a familiar one, though many students come into the classroom with only a vague grasp of the details"-- Provided by publisher.
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