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Tables of Contents for Gaia
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
Gerald Durrell
People as Planet Managers by Oxfam
INTRODUCTION
The Fragile Miracle
10
12
Accelerating evolution
12
2
Latecomers to evolution
14
2
The long shadow
16
2
Crisis or challenge?
18
2
LAND
Introduction
20
2
Jorge Terena
The Land Potential
22
14
The fertile soil
22
2
The green potential
24
2
The global forest
26
2
Tropical forests
28
2
The world croplands
30
2
The world's grazing herd
32
2
The global larder
34
2
The Land Crisis
36
10
The disappearing soil
36
2
The shrinking forest
38
2
Destroying the protector
40
2
The encroaching desert
42
2
Hunger and glut
44
2
Managing the Land
46
18
The cash-crop factor
46
2
The global supermarket
48
2
Harvesting the forest
50
2
Forests of the future
52
2
Managing the soil
54
2
Green revolution?
56
2
Agriculture in the balance
58
2
Towards a new agriculture
60
2
OCEAN
Introduction by Greenpeace
62
2
The Ocean Potential
64
12
The world ocean
64
2
The living ocean
66
2
The vital margins
68
2
The global shoal
70
2
Ocean technology
72
2
Polar zones
74
2
The Ocean Crisis
76
8
The empty nets
76
2
Polluting the oceans
78
2
Destruction of habitat
80
2
Whose ocean?
82
2
Managing the Ocean
84
12
Harvesting the sea
84
2
Clean-up for the ocean
86
2
Managing Antarctica
88
2
The laws of the sea
90
2
Future ocean
92
2
ELEMENTS
Introduction
94
2
James E. Lovelock
The Elemental Potential
96
10
The global powerhouse
96
2
The energy store
98
2
The climate asset
100
2
The freshwater reservoir
102
2
The mineral reserve
104
2
The Elements Crisis
106
18
The oil crisis
106
2
The fuelwood crisis
108
2
The greenhouse effect
110
2
Climate chaos
112
2
Holes in the ozone map
114
2
The invisible threat
116
2
Water that kills
118
2
Widening circle of poison
120
2
The nuclear dilemma
122
2
Managing the Elements
124
16
The new energy path
124
2
An energy-efficient future
126
2
Managing energy in the South
128
2
The laws of the air
130
2
Managing water
132
2
Clean water for all
134
2
Waste into wealth
136
2
EVOLUTION
Introduction
138
2
Paul Ehrlich
The Evolutionary Potential
140
12
The life pool
140
2
The web of Gaia
142
2
Life strategies
144
2
Partners in evolution
146
2
The genetic resource
148
2
Keys to the wild
150
2
Evolution in Crisis
152
8
The irreplaceable heritage
152
2
The destruction of diversity
154
2
Genetic erosion
156
2
Towards a lonely planet
158
2
Evolution in Management
160
10
Conserving the wild
160
2
Preserving the genetic resource
162
2
Laws and conventions
164
2
Towards a new conservation
166
2
HUMANKIND
Introduction
168
2
Nafis Sadik
The Human Potential
170
6
People potential
170
2
The world at work
172
2
Homo sapiens
174
2
Crisis: the Inability to Participate
176
10
The numbers game
176
2
The work famine
178
2
Sickness and stress
180
2
The literacy chasm
182
2
Outcasts and refugees
184
2
Managing Ourselves
186
10
Managing numbers
186
2
The voice of women
188
2
Health for all
190
2
Tools and ideas
192
2
CIVILIZATION
Introduction
194
2
Janos Vargha
The Power of Civilization
196
10
The world city
196
2
The world factory
198
2
The power of communications
200
2
The world market
202
2
The world's wealth
204
2
Crisis: the Divided World
206
12
Chaos in the cities
206
2
Monopolies in media control
208
2
Market tremors
210
2
Haves and have-nots
212
2
Environmental trade-off?
214
2
The poverty bomb
216
2
Managing our Civilization
218
14
Urban regeneration
218
2
The will to communicate
220
2
Technology transfer
222
2
Growing interdependence
224
2
Closing the gap
226
2
New rules of the game
228
2
MANAGEMENT
Introduction
230
2
Lois Gibbs
The Management Potential
232
10
Phoenix nation state
232
2
Reluctant internationalists
234
2
Voice of the world
236
2
Voice of the village
238
2
Voice of the individual
240
2
Crisis: the Threat of War
242
10
Breaking points
242
2
Towards a violent planet
244
2
The cost of militarism
246
2
One million Hiroshimas
248
2
Bang or whimper?
250
2
Under New Management
252
8
Global governance
252
2
The great transition
254
2
Signs of hope
256
2
A new ethic
258
2
EPILOGUE
260
2
APPENDICES
262
6
Consultants and contributors
262
2
Essential reading
264
1
Maps and data, Abbreviations
265
1
Credits
266
2
Index
268