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Fundamentals for the Anthropocene /
This book seeks to bridge the gap between leading edge scholarship about the nature of the physical, tangible Universe and the nature of the life process on Earth on the one hand, and on the other hand challenges facing human society as to the current revolution in energy sources, national and inter...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Warsaw ; Berlin :
Sciendo Migration,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- 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