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- Title
Resource Transitions and Energy Gain: Contexts of Organization.
- Authors
Tainter, Joseph A.; Allen, T. F. H.; Little, Amanda; Hoekstra, Thomas W.
- Abstract
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.
- Publication
Conservation Ecology (11955449), 2003, Vol 7, Issue 3, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1195-5449
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.5751/ES-00574-070304