Pushing Our Limits: Insights from Biosphere 2

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Preface: What Have I Gotten Myself Into? -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Build a Biosphere: What Were We Thinking? -- 2. Meet the Biospherians -- 3. A Technosphere that Protects and Serves Life -- 4. "Every Breath You Take, Every Step You Make" -- 5. Carbon Dioxide: Atmospheric Management of a Small World -- 6. Farming as If There Were a Tomorrow -- 7. Déjà Vu: The Water Recycles -- 8. Wilderness Biomes -- 9. Building a Rainforest -- Color Gallery -- 10. What's a World Without an Ocean? -- 11. They're Mangroves, Not Mangoes! -- 12. Down from the Trees: Sweet Home, Our Savanna -- 13. The Desert Goes Its Own Way -- 14. Oxygen: The Missing Element -- 15. Humans: The Most Unstable Element -- 16. Connected! The Biospherian Experience -- 17. Re-entry -- 18. The Afterglow -- Conclusion: A Time to Tear Down, A Time to Rebuild -- Notes -- Index

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Nelson, Mark

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