Environment, power, and society. [stressing energy language and energy analysis]

Book · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1971

OSTI ID:5010098

Odum, H T

Studies of the energetics of ecological systems suggest general means for applying basic laws of energy and matter to the complex systems of nature and man. In this book, energy language is used to consider the pressing problem of survival in our time--the partnership of man in nature. An effort is made to show that energy analysis can help answer many of the questions of economics, law, and religion. Models for the analysis of a system are made by recognizing major divisions whose causal relationships are indicated by the pathways of interchange of energy and work. Then simulation allows the model's performance to be tested against the performance of the real system. Ideal energy flows are illustrated with ecological systems and then applied to all kinds of situations from very small biochemical processes to the large overall systems of man and the biosphere. Energy diagraming is included to consider the great problems of power, pollution, population, food, and war. This account also attempts to introduce ecology through the energy language.

• OSTI ID: 5010098
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
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Health
& Safety
ANIMALS
CORRELATIONS
ECOLOGY
ECONOMICS
ECOSYSTEMS
ENERGY ANALYSIS
ENERGY MODELS
ENVIRONMENT
FOOD
HUMAN POPULATIONS
LEGAL ASPECTS
MAMMALS
MAN
POPULATIONS
POWER
PRIMATES
PUBLIC OPINION
SIMULATION
SOCIAL IMPACT
SOCIOLOGY
VERTEBRATES
WATER RESOURCES