Resource Transitions and Energy Gain: Contexts of Organization

Autor:	Joseph A. Tainter, T. F. H. Allen, Amanda Little, Thomas W. Hoekstra
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Roman Empire beaver complexity energy energy gain fungus-farming ants leaf-cutting ants living systems organization renewable resources resources solar energy Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
Zdroj:	Ecology and Society, Vol 7, Iss 3, p 4 (2003)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1708-3087 0574-0703
DOI:	10.5751/ES-00574-070304
Popis:	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 involving imperial taxation, fungus-farming ants, and North American beaver, and propose a suite of hypotheses for the organization of systems that subsist on different levels of energy gain. Organizational constraints arising from energy gain predict changes to settlement and organization in postcarbon societies.
Databáze:	Directory of Open Access Journals
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