Guidebook for Systems Applications in Astrobiology
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Guidebook for Systems Applications in Astrobiology

  1. 328 pages
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Guidebook for Systems Applications in Astrobiology

About this book

This book addresses the timely subject of systems applications in astrobiology. It demonstrates how astrobiology – a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary field of science – can benefit from adopting the systems approach.

Astrobiology draws upon its founding sciences, such as astronomy, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, geology, and planetary sciences. However, astrobiologists can encounter difficulties working across these fields. The systems approach, we believe, is the best contemporary approach to consider astrobiology holistically. The approach is currently used in other fields, such as engineering, which uses systems analysis routinely.

Such an approach needs to be learned, both in principle and through examples, from the field. This book features chapters from experts across the field of astrobiology who have applied the systems approach. It will be a valuable guide for astrobiology students at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, in addition to researchers in the field, both in academia and the space industry.

Key Features:

  • Offers a unique and novel approach to studying and understanding astrobiology
  • Encourages astrobiologists to apply a holistic systems approach to their work, rather than being bogged down in details
  • Imparts practical knowledge to readers which can be adopted in different research and job opportunities in the field of astrobiology

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032278216
eBook ISBN
9781003823704
Edition
1
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Biology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments for the Guidebook
  10. Contributors
  11. Chapter 1 Astrobiology: An Overview
  12. Chapter 2 A Primer on the Systems Approach
  13. Chapter 3 Systems Approach to Prebiotic Chemistry Which Led to Life
  14. Chapter 4 Assembly of Membranous Compartments: An Essential Step in the Emergence and Function of Protocellular Systems
  15. Chapter 5 Locating the Cradle of Life: The Hydrothermal Impact Crater Lakes on Young Earth and Mars
  16. Chapter 6 Systems Geochemistry in an Astrobiological Context
  17. Chapter 7 Asymmetric Autocatalysis and the Origins of Homochirality
  18. Chapter 8 Abiotic-to-Biotic Transition of Organic Systems Starting with Thermodynamic Inversion
  19. Chapter 9 Systems Biology
  20. Chapter 10 Systems Approach to Microbial Communities and Its Application to Astrobiology
  21. Chapter 11 The Role of Astrobiology in Systems Thinking Education
  22. Chapter 12 Knowledge Gaps in Astrobiology: Can the Systems Approach Help Elucidate Them?
  23. Chapter 13 Life’s Emergence by Protocellular Mutually Catalytic Networks
  24. Chapter 14 Prototyping the Colonizer Cell: Combining Biology and Systems Engineering
  25. Index