Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-first Century: The Hierarchy of Energy

Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-first Century: The Hierarchy of Energy
ISBN-10
0231128878
ISBN-13
9780231128872
Category
Science
Pages
418
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Howard Thomas Odum

Description

Through this method Odum reveals the similarities between human economic and social systems and the ecosystems of the natural world. In the process, we discover that our survival and prosperity are regulated as much by the laws of energetics as are systems of the physical and chemical world. Also includes information on agriculture, animals, available energy, biomass, capitalism, civilization, consumption, cycles, diversity, earth, economy, ecosystems, empower, alternative energy, environment, evolution, fossil fuels, fuels, growth, information, kinetic energy, energy laws, matter, metabolism, microcosm, models of energy systems, nations, nature, organic matter, organization, overgrowth, oxygen, photosynthesis, power, production, pulses, ratios, respiration, self organization, society, solar energy, storage, structure, sustainability, systems networks, transpiration, waste, work, yields, etc.

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