قراءات إضافية
الفصل الأول: الموطن
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James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Oxford University Press, 1979). A popular science classic—Lovelock’s poetic description of his dawning realization of Gaia.
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Earth System Sciences Committee, NASA Advisory Council, Earth System Science Overview: A Program for Global Change (NASA, 1986). A founding document for a new scientific field.
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Martin Redfern, The Earth: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2003). A succinct introduction to the workings of the inner Earth.
الفصل الثاني: إعادة التدوير
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Lee R. Kump, James F. Kasting, and Robert G. Crane, The Earth System, 3rd edition (Prentice Hall, 2010). An introductory textbook to the field, nicely rooted in a systems thinking approach.
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Michael C. Jacobson, Robert J. Charlson, Henning Rodhe, and Gordon H. Orians (eds), Earth System Science: From Biogeochemical Cycles to Global Change (Academic Press, 2000). A more advanced textbook covering key aspects of Earth system science.
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William H. Schlesinger and Emily S. Bernhardt, Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change, 3rd edition (Academic Press, 2013). A more advanced textbook focused on biogeochemical cycling.
الفصل الثالث: التنظيم
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James Lovelock, The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth (Oxford University Press, 1988). My favourite popular science book. Lovelock transforms Gaia into a theory using simple models to explore self-regulation, and laying out the history of our planet as a system.
الفصل الرابع: ثورات
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Tim Lenton and Andrew Watson, Revolutions that Made the Earth (Oxford University Press, 2011). Our synthesis of the pivotal events that created a world in which humans could evolve.
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Charles H. Langmuir and Wally Broecker, How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind (Princeton University Press, 2012). Long but rewarding—a comprehensive introduction to the Earth in a universal context.
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Paul G. Falkowski, Life’s Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable (Princeton University Press, 2015). An insightful and personal introduction to the organisms that really run this planet.
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Donald E. Canfield, Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History (Princeton University Press, 2014). The pivotal gas for complex life gets a welcome biography from one of the leaders of the field.
الفصل الخامس: الأنثروبوسين
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Jan Zalasiewicz, The Earth After Us (Oxford University Press, 2008). Both a neat introduction to geology and a long-term view of our legacy in the rock record.
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Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years (Vintage, 1998). A classic exposition of the differing development of societies over the Holocene.
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Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive (Penguin, 2011). A provocative look at why past civilizations came to grief and what we can learn from their mistakes.
الفصل السادس: التوقع
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John Houghton, Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, 5th edition (Cambridge University Press, 2015). The definitive summary of the complexities of climate change.
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James R. Fleming, Historical Perspectives on Climate Change (Oxford University Press, 1998). A myth-busting series of essays on the history of thinking about climate change.
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Kendal McGuffie and Ann Henderson-Sellers, The Climate Modelling Primer, 4th edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). Makes the fiendishly complex business of climate modelling accessible.
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David Archer, The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Princeton University Press, 2010). The long view on the consequences of fossil fuel burning.
الفصل السابع: الاستدامة
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Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III, The Limits to Growth (Universe Books, 1972). A bible for the environmental movement but a heresy for many economists—either way, the systems modelling approach taken was groundbreaking.
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David J. C. Mackay, Sustainable Energy—Without the Hot Air (UIT, 2009). A quantitative examination of what it will take to power our civilizations sustainably.
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Julian M. Allwood and Jonathan M. Cullen, Sustainable Materials—With Both Eyes Open (UIT, 2012). A careful look at how we can be more efficient with key materials.
الفصل الثامن: التعميم
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James Kasting, How to Find a Habitable Planet (Princeton University Press, 2012). The maestro of modelling habitable zones offers the perfect manual for the would-be planet finder.
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David C. Catling, Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2013). A sparkling introduction to the prospects for life elsewhere.