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The Green Marble

Earth System Science and Global Sustainability

David Turner

The Green Marble
The Green Marble

The Green Marble

Earth System Science and Global Sustainability

David Turner

Paperback | English
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Description

In this concise and accessible text, David P. Turner presents an overview of global environmental change and a synthesis of research from earth system science and sustainability science. It provides a framework for understanding human impact on the environment for anyone interested in our current predicaments and what we can do about them.

From 4.5 billion years of Earth history to the future of civilization, The Green Marble provides a broad sweep of humanity’s interwoven dependence on the planet’s elegant biogeochemical cycles and self-regulating feedbacks that maintain a climate suitable for life. Anyone interested in the Earth’s life support system will find a wealth of deep insights into the emerging field of Earth system science.

The Green Marble introduces earth systems as spheres: the noösphere formed when human actions attained a sufficient magnitude to alter the planet, the biosphere or the total life on Earth, the hydrosphere, the technosphere. David P. Turner interweaves planetary systems, large-scale human actions, and the risk of global system failures in this rich text to provide a readable, systems-oriented, intellectually rich narrative on understanding the deep global issues that we face today.

This book takes us on a journey around the biosphere at all scales, from cellular details of photosynthesis to global biome distributions, and in time, from four billion years ago as life began to thousands of years into the future with a changing climate. It is exceedingly rare for a single text to cover the natural and social sciences on global environmental change and to take the intellectual risk of offering big solutions. The end result is a very readable book that should catalyze the type of thought-provoking class discussions all good teachers desire.

The challenge presented in this book is to acknowledge the role of humans in Earth's future and in potential strategies to sustain it. Recommended.

David P. Turner is a research professor in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University.

Specifications

  • Publisher
    Columbia University Press
  • Pub date
    May 2018
  • Pages
    328
  • Theme
    The Earth: natural history: general interest
  • Dimensions
    229 x 152 mm
  • EAN
    9780231180610
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Language
    English

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