Resource Transitions and Energy Gain: Contexts of Organization

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dc.contributor.authorTainter, Joseph A.,en_US
dc.contributor.authorAllen, T. F. H.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLittle, Amandaen_US
dc.contributor.authorHoekstra, Thomas W.en_US
dc.coverage.regionNorth Americaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-31T14:52:25Z
dc.date.available2009-07-31T14:52:25Z
dc.date.issued2003en_US
dc.date.submitted2008-11-19en_US
dc.date.submitted2008-11-19en_US
dc.description.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."en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournalEcology and Societyen_US
dc.identifier.citationmonthDecemberen_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber3en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume7en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/2663
dc.subjectbeaveren_US
dc.subjectcomplexityen_US
dc.subjectenergyen_US
dc.subjectantsen_US
dc.subjectorganizational designen_US
dc.subjectnatural resourcesen_US
dc.subjectsolar energyen_US
dc.subject.sectorSocial Organizationen_US
dc.titleResource Transitions and Energy Gain: Contexts of Organizationen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.type.publishedpublisheden_US

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