Energy Flow and Management
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22368308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oskar Burger (0000-0002-7552-5851, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research), John P DeLong (0000-0003-0558-8213, University of Nebraska–Lincoln) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1870 |
| OpenAlex | W3082164881 |
| ISBN | 9781118924396 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Energetics is the study of how energy use, including harvest, distribution, and management, is a transforming and limiting feature of living systems. Energy must be burned to do work. As such, all work done by a society or an individual requires energy. Hence a great deal of anthropological subject matter can be understood through a lens of energetics. Although energetics is not generally considered a core anthropological topic, many prominent anthropologists have used energetics to study human systems, notably in differentiating socioeconomies by work capacity, describing ecological constraints on foraging and agricultural societies from an optimal foraging or a systems perspective, and developing general theory for the causes of collapse by complex societies
Biology · Economics · Energetics · Energy flow · Epistemology · Foraging · Limiting · Positive economics · Premise · Sociology · Computer Science · Energy and Environment Impacts · Engineering · Mathematics · Philosophy · Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis · Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies · Artificial Intelligence · Ecology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |