Ecodynamics : the Prigogine legacy / Editor, C.A. Brebbia.
Publication details: Southampton ; Billerica, MA : Wit Press, c2012.Description: vi, 341 p. ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781845646547
- 9781845646554
- 577 ECO 22
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| 577 BUS 1 Ecology of a changing planet / | 577 CHI 1 Miombo ecology and management : an introduction / | 577 ECO 1 Ecodynamics : the Prigogine legacy / | 577 ECO 2 Ecodynamics : the Prigogine legacy / | 577 ENV ENV Environmental biology / | 577 MOL 1 Ecology : concepts and applications / | 577 MOL 1 Ecology: concepts and applications/ |
CONTENTS:
- Autobiography of Ilya A. Prigogine (1917-2003)
- Towards a thermodynamics of biological systems
- Is entropy far from equilibrium a state function?
- Global change and human: a prescription for adaptive evolution from ecological network theory
- Ecosystems becoming
- A common framework for emergy and exergy based LCA in accordance with environ theory
-A nonthermodynamic constraint to trophic transfer efficiency based on network utility analysis
- Emergy, empower and eco-exergy to empower ratio: a reconciliation of H.T. Odum with Prigogine
-Sustaining our commonwealth of nature and knowledge
-The character of earth history
- Thermodynamics, information, and complexity in artificial and living systems
- Ecological utility analysis: determination of interaction types between organisms in ecosystems
- Process Ecology: a transactional worldview
- The origins of irreversibility
- Reversibility in sciences and in engineering
- The nature of spontaneity-driven process
- The conjunction of non-living and living in human systems: why do novelties emerge?
- Cascading thresholds to heteroclinicity in an ecosystem model
- City out of chaos: social patterns and organization in urban systems
- Quo Vadis thermodynamics and the city: a critical review of applications of thermodynamics methods to urban systems
Etc.
Includes bibliographical references (p.339) and index (p.341)
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