Odum, Howard

Odum, Howard. Environment, Power and Society. New York Whey Interscience, 1971. 

Howard T. Odum (1971), an ecologist, is the most diligent in his attempts to reduce all-or nearly all-cultural phenomena to the currency of energy. On first examination his approach to causality is strikingly reminiscent of White. On closer examination, it seems that Odum holds a possibilistic position on causality, similar to that of Cottrell. In a section on theories of history, he comments apropos of the rise... 

Late Prof. Howard T. Odum, then professor at University of Florida, Gainesville, for overwhelming depth and clarity of his visions,-... 

Circuit diagram of human habitation involving energy sources, heating mechanics, human labor, and vermin. For Howard and Eugene Odum, systems ecology was a managerial ethos applicable to human society as much as nature. From Howard Odum, Environment. 

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