Pushing our limits
Subtitle: insights from Biosphere 2
By: Mark Nelson
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780816537327
Subjects: Ecology; Biosphere 2 (Project); Research
Description: Biospherian Mark Nelson offers insider perspectives on Biosphere 2 and bold insights into today's global ecological challenges--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-291) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : What Have I Gotten Myself Into?; title: Build a Biosphere : What Were We Thinking?; title: Meet the Biospherians; title: A Technosphere that Protects and Serves Life; title: "Every Breath You Take, Every Step You Make"; title: Carbon Dioxide : Atmospheric Management of a Small World; title: Farming as If There Were a Tomorrow; title: Déjà Vu : The Water Recycles; title: Wilderness Biomes; title: Building a Rainforest; title: What's a World Without an Ocean?; title: They're Mangroves, Not Mangoes!; title: Down from the Trees : Sweet Home, Our Savanna; title: The Desert Goes Its Own Way; title: Oxygen : The Missing Element; title: Humans : The Most Unstable Element; title: Connected! : the Biospherian Experience; title: Re-entry; title: The Afterglow; title: Conclusion : A Time to Tear Down, A Time to Rebuild.