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This book, introduces the concept of emergy as a way of placing the value of commodities, services, and environmental goods of various kinds on a common basis. The conflicts between economic development and protection of the environment are important political and public policy issues. The aim of this book is to place environmental decision making on a more rational and less emotional basis by finding a common measure of the value of environmental and other kinds of assets.
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A renowned expert in systems ecology presents methods of environmental management based on maximizing the actual wealth produced. Odum describes, in layman terms, the concept of emergy as a means of placing the value of commodities, services and environmental goods of various types on a common basis. He outlines the procedure for making an emergy evaluation table to assess environments, minerals, waters, primary energy sources, economic developments, nations and international trade.
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This book, introduces the concept of emergy as a way of placing the value of commodities, services, and environmental goods of various kinds on a common basis. The conflicts between economic development and protection of the environment are important political and public policy issues. The aim of this book is to place environmental decision making on a more rational and less emotional basis by finding a common measure of the value of environmental and other kinds of assets.
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A renowned expert in systems ecology presents methods of environmental management based on maximizing the actual wealth produced. Odum describes, in layman terms, the concept of emergy as a means of placing the value of commodities, services and environmental goods of various types on a common basis. He outlines the procedure for making an emergy evaluation table to assess environments, minerals, waters, primary energy sources, economic developments, nations and international trade.
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The earth's environment provides necessary life support for society and its economy, fertile soils, clean waters, clear air, good climate, healthy ecological systems, and aesthetic surroundings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The earth's environment provides necessary life support for society and its economy, fertile soils, clean waters, clear air, good climate, healthy ecological systems, and aesthetic surroundings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
solar transformity, emdollar value, solar empower, solar transformities, emergy analysis, different transformities, solar emjoules, energy transformation hierarchy, higher transformity, empower density, energy yield ratio, high transformity, track summing, maximum empower, transformity increases, net energy analysis, geopotential energy, energy hierarchy, gross economic product, pulsing paradigm, joules per year, lignite power plant, maximum power principle, embodied energy, chemical potential energy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Energy Analysis by Odum on 17 pages
- Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability by Professor Robert Costanza on 4 pages
- Final report (CCS occasional paper ; no. 6) by Speyside Project in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Ecosystem Modeling in Theory and Practice: An Introduction with Case Histories by Charles A.S. Hall in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Prince William Sound (Alaska Geographic) by Penny Rennick on page 126, and Back Matter
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- Environment and Society in Florida by Howard T. Odum in Back Matter
- Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health by Sven E. Jorgensen on page 376
- Implementing Ecological Integrity Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health (NATO Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences) by Philippe Crabbé on page 189
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