Strategies for Sustainability of the Earth System /

This volume builds on an international workshop held in 2019, inspired by James Lovelock's "The Revenge of Gaia - Why the Earth Is Fighting Back, and How We Can Still Save Humanity". It, therefore, understands the Gaia concept as an umbrella term for the living world that planet Earth...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Wilderer, Peter A. (Editor), Grambow, Martin (Editor), Molls, Michael (Editor), Oexle, Konrad (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed. 2022.
Series:	Strategies for Sustainability,
Subjects:	Sustainable development. Green chemistry. Ecology . Biodiversity. Pollution. Public health. Sustainable Development. Green Chemistry. Ecology. Pollution, general. Public Health. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Foreword
List of Content
List of Contributors
Message from the Desk of the Bavarian State Minister of Environment and Consumer Protection
Editorial: A Journey through the Book
Part I: General Thoughts
Chapter 1. The Anthropocene Turns Out To Be A Disaster For The Earth. Few Options Remain To Change Course
Chapter 2. The Systemic Risk Perspective: Social Perception of Uncertainty and Tipping Points
Chapter 3. On Ecological Ethics
Chapter 4. The Complexity Trap: Skepticism, Denialism and the Political Epistemology of Climate Science
Chapter 5. Biodesign: Design and Medicine---A Philosophical Challenge
Chapter 6. Vulnerability is a Talent in the Ecological Crisis
Chapter 7. From Anthropocene to Artificial Intelligence? Challenges of Machine Learning for Science, Life, and Society
Part II: Ecology: A Key Resource
Chapter 8. The Key Resources Water, Soil and Intact Ecosystems: In Which World Do We Want To Live In The Future?
Chapter 9. Natural Ecosystems and Earth´s Habitability: Attempting a Cross-Disciplinary Synthesis
Chapter 10. Resilience Thinking: Push-Start of a New Enlightenment in the Light of the Sustainability Paradigm
Chapter 11
Is the Global Economy Running a Pyramid Scheme?
Chapter 12. Climate Positive, Sustainable Agriculture is a Possible Cornerstone for Public-Interest-Agrarian Policies
Chapter 13. Bavaria in Transition: Changes in the Water Balance due to Man And Nature
Chapter 14. A Discussion of Basic Notions
Part III: The Human Health Dimension
Chapter 15. Genetics, Neurostimulation and Robotics: Implications for the Developing Child
Chapter 16. The Smartphone. Digital Reverse Transcriptase of Child Development. The New Inner World of the Outer World of the Inner World. Chapter 17. Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Our Health?
Chapter 18. Allergy and Civilization
Chapter 19. Nutrition, Movement and Environment
Chapter 20. The Future of Cancer Therapy with X-Rays: Patient numbers, Innovations, Clinical Trials and the Problem of Generating Evidence
Chapter 21. Medicine and Senescense: An example of Earth by Medical Progress
Chapter 22. Epigenetics won´t do Miracles: Some Sobering Remarks in Response to Prof. Johannes Huber
Part IV: Towards a New Enlightenment
Chapter 23. New Enlightenment towards Methodological Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitan Democracy
Chapter 24. A Different Look to Consumption: From Quantitative to Sustainable Consumption
Chapter 25. Public Health: A Political Toolbox to Reduce Violation of Earth
Chapter 26. Enlightenment 2.0: Towards responsible science in the Anthropocene
Chapter 27. Enlightenment 2.0? What we would have to Change if we Wanted to Stay
Chapter 28. The Fridays for Future Phenomenon
Chapter 29. Empowering the Earth system by technology: Using Thermodynamics of the Earth System to Illustrate a Possible Sustainable Future of the Planet
Part V: Last but not Least
Recommendations for Action
Personal Message from the Authors
Index.-.