Description
Product ID: | 9780231128872 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-First Century |
Subtitle: | The Hierarchy of Energy |
Authors: | Author: Howard Odum |
Page Count: | 432 |
Subjects: | Energy industries and utilities, Energy industries & utilities, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmental science, engineering & technology |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Introduces the concepts of emergy and transformity. This book presents the natural energies such as solar radiation and the cycling of water, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen diagrammed in terms of energy and emergy flow. It also reveals the similarities between human economic and social systems and the ecosystems of the natural world. |
Imprint Name: | Columbia University Press |
Publisher Name: | Columbia University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2007-06-08 |