Howard T. Odum possessed one of the most innovative minds of the
twentieth century. He pioneered the fields of ecological
engineering, ecological economics, and environmental accounting,
working throughout his life to better understand the
interrelationships of energy, environment, and society and their
importance to the well-being of humanity and the planet.
This volume is a major modernization of Odum's classic work on
the significance of power and its role in society, bringing his
approach and insight to a whole new generation of students and
scholars. For this edition Odum refines his original theories and
introduces two new measures: emergy and transformity. These
concepts can be used to evaluate and compare systems and their
transformation and use of resources by accounting for all the
energies and materials that flow in and out and expressing them in
equivalent ability to do work. Natural energies such as solar
radiation and the cycling of water, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen
are diagrammed in terms of energy and emergy flow. 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.
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