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

Howard T. Odum

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Paper, 432 pages, 216 line drawings, 17 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-12887-2
$42.00 / £29.00

June, 2007
Cloth, 432 pages, 216 line drawings, 17 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-12886-5
$110.00 / £76.00

1- This World System 1

2- Systems Networks and Metabolism 13

3- Energy Laws and Maximum Power 32

4- Energy Hierarchy and Natural Value 63

5- Energy and Planet Earth 102

6- Energy and Ecosystems 131

7- Empower Basis for Society 176

8- Structure Information and Evolution 221

9- Energy and Economics 252

10- Energetic Organization of Society 281

11- Energetic Basis for Religion 313

12- Partnership with Nature 332

13- Climax and Descent 380

14- Formulas for Energy Systems Modules 39

About the Author

Howard T. Odum was Graduate Research Professor at the University of Florida's Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences from 1970 until his death in 2002. He won the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Prix de l'Institut de la Vie awarded by the French government. He is the author of numerous books and papers, including Ecological and General Systems: An Introduction to Systems Ecology, Environmental Accounting: Emergy and Decision Making, and, with Elisabeth C. Odum, Modeling for all Scales: An Introduction to System Simulation and The Prosperous Way Down: Principles and Policies.Howard T. Odum was professor and director of the Center for Environmental Policy at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He was a winner of the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1987 for his contributions to ecology and environmental science. His student and colleague Mark Brown completed the revisions.

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