Environment, Power, and SocietyThis world system; What power is; Power in ecological systems; Power basis for man; Power for order and evolution; Power and economics; Power and politics; Energetic basis for religion; Electrical simulation of energy networks; Partnership with nature; What systems are next? |
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Contents
THIS WORLD SYSTEM | 1 |
WHAT POWER IS | 26 |
POWER IN ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS | 58 |
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action adapted agriculture amount animals areas balance become budget chemical circuits common compartments complex concentrated consumers continue cost countries culture cycle develop diagram direction diversity ecological economic ecosystem effect electrical energetic energy flow energy sources example Figure follow force forest fossil fuels functions given growth heat human important increases individual industrial input involved kinds language less light limiting living loop maintain maintenance man's materials matter means measure mechanisms mineral natural necessary needed operation organization pathways patterns photosynthesis plants population possible potential energy power flows present principle production programs proportion ratio reinforcement relation represent reward selection serves shown shows simple simulation solar species stability storage stored structure supply symbol Table tion units various wastes yield
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| Title | Environment, Power, and Society Volume 28 of ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY: a WILEY-INTERSCIENCE SERIES of TEXTS and MONOGRAPHS Series Environmental Science and Technology |
| Authors | Howard Thomas Odum, Odum |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Wiley-Interscience, 1970 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Nov 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0471652709, 9780471652700 |
| Length | 331 pages |
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