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Publikováno v:
Ecology and Society, Vol 7, Iss 3, p 4 (2003)
Energy gain constrains resource use, social organization, and landscape organization in human and other living systems. Changes in energy gain have common characteristics across living systems. We describe these commonalities in selected case studies
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https://doaj.org/article/de06d98e3e67404da3f6408a5f66f690
Autor:
Joseph A. Tainter
Publikováno v:
How Worlds Collapse ISBN: 9781003331384
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::b6262d1584dabe9a87fa5d342cf44b14
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003331384-4
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003331384-4
While environmentalists insist that lower rates of consumption of natural resources are essential for a sustainable future, many economists dismiss the notion that resource limits act to constrain modern, creative societies. The conflict between thes
Publikováno v:
Energy Policy. 124:54-62
Biofuels are a regular focus of public policy. The productivity of innovation in biofuel technologies is rarely addressed either in research or policy. Yet as innovation in any field grows complex and costly it can experience reductions in productivi
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::a0238ff7b65c98b5247ca8dad044993d
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.09.005
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.09.005
Autor:
Zora Kovacic, Mario Giampietro, Preston Austin, Timothy F. H. Allen, Joseph A. Tainter, Edmond Ramly
Publikováno v:
Ecological Complexity. 35:39-44
This paper assesses the conceptualizations and analytical uses of complexity. Throughout the paper, we carefully eschew ontological issues, and sort out the epistemology of complexity. We try to explain why the ontology of complexity makes no sense t
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::9080e9673c8d0b47f750b3e04b4ed452
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2017.05.004
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2017.05.004
Autor:
Joseph A. Tainter
Publikováno v:
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. 1
Cahokia in the 12th century A.D. was the largest metropolitan area and the most complex political system in North America north of Mexico. Its metabolism depended on an area of high natural and agricultural productivity. As it grew, Cahokia absorbed
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::de2ec2b7e25ed82975c2adca36074ef5
https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2019.00006
https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2019.00006
Autor:
Temis G. Taylor, Joseph A. Tainter
Publikováno v:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 42
We question Baumard's underlying assumption that humans have a propensity to innovate. Affordable transportation and energy underpinned the Industrial Revolution, making mass production/consumption possible. Although we cannot accept Baumard's thesis
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::6b667ac25b52b53a2467febd6514228c
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x19000153
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x19000153
Autor:
Joseph A. Tainter
Publikováno v:
Understanding Urban Ecology ISBN: 9783030112585
Ancient cities were like modern ones in some important ways and unlike them in others. Both have consisted of dense agglomerations in which people live in ways that are unprecedented in human history. Despite their points of similarity, scale and met
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::4824b40ea53d11dce32800410d3c8d69
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11259-2_4
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11259-2_4
Autor:
Temis G. Taylor, Joseph A. Tainter
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 75:1005-1043
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::44df6b7f945c92e7f74d8761d1b7036d
https://doi.org/10.1111/ajes.12162
https://doi.org/10.1111/ajes.12162
Autor:
Joseph A. Tainter
Publikováno v:
Journal of Anthropological Research. 72:551-553
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::12d7a5d80833fe08e7ca2eb9e42c1653
https://doi.org/10.1086/689337
https://doi.org/10.1086/689337