Resource Transitions and Energy Gain: Contexts of Organization

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,...

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Main Authors: Joseph A. Tainter, T. F. H. Allen, Amanda Little, Thomas W. Hoekstra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2003-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol7/iss3/art4/