Fundamentals for the Anthropocene.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pearce, Jack.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Warschau/Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Visible Universe Starts With - Believe It or Not - Correlation
  • 2 Correlation=Differentiation=Order
  • 3 Some Basic Characteristics of this Ordering Process as Thus Conceived
  • 4 Hierarchy and Emergence Theories
  • 5 Causation
  • 6 The Arrow of Time
  • 7 Complexity
  • 8 Life
  • 9 Energy
  • 10 Globalization (Make It or Break It)
  • 11 Ethics, Thermodynamics, and The Anthropocene
  • Appendix A: Note on Ontology and Epistemology
  • Appendix B: A Selection of Human Social Conventions Which Favor Cooperative, and Thus Correlated, or Coordinated, Behavior
  • Appendix C: Quantitative Wikis For Energy Supply and Distribution Modeling
  • References
  • Index.