Howard T. Odum

Howard Thomas Odum (Chapel Hill, 1º settembre 1924 – Gainesville, 11 settembre 2002) è stato un ecologo statunitense. È noto per il suo lavoro pionieristico sugli ecosistemi e per il suo provocatorio approccio alla termodinamica, improntato alla teoria dei sistemi.

Libri

2007, Environment, Power and Society for the Twenty-First Century: The Hierarchy of Energy, with Mark T. Brown, Columbia University Press.
2001, A Prosperous Way Down: Principles and Policies, with Elisabeth C. Odum, University Press of Colorado.
2000, with E.C. Odum, Modeling for all Scales: An introduction to System Simulation, Academic Press.
1999, Heavy Metals in the Environment: Using Wetlands for Their Removal.
1999, Biosphere 2 : Research, Past and Present, with Bruno D. V. Marino.
1996, Environmental Accounting: EMERGY and environmental decision making.
1993, Ecological Microcosms, with Michael J. Beyers.
1984, Cypress Swamps with Katherine C. Ewel.
1983, Systems Ecology : an Introduction.
1981, Energy Basis for Man and Nature, with Elisabeth C. Odum.
1970, with Robert F. Pigeon (eds), A Tropical Rain Forest; a Study of Irradiation and Ecology at El Verde, Puerto Rico, United States Atomic Energy Commission, National Technical information service.
1971, Environment, Power and Society, 1971
1967, (ed.) Work Circuits and System Stress, in Young, Symposium on Primary Productivity and Mineral Cycling, University of Maine Press.
1953, 'Fundamentals of Ecology, with Eugene P. Odum, (first edition).

Articoli

1998, eMergy Evaluation, paper presented at the International Workshop on Advances in Energy Studies: Energy flows in ecology and economy, Porto Venere, Italy, May 27.
1997, EMERGY Evaluation and Transformity, in Kreith ed. CRC Handbook of Mechanical Engineering.
1991, Emergy and Biogeochemical Cycles, in Rossi & Tiezzi ed Physical Chemistry.
1989, Emergy and Evolution, In 33rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, UK.
1989, Comments and thanks to Students and Associates, Handout on the Occasion of the Celebration in Chapel Hill, N.C, in: "Advances in Understanding Ecological Systems", August 31-September, 2.
1984, Embodied Energy and the Welfare of Nations, Jansson ed, Integration o Economy and Ecology.
1977, The ecosystem, energy, and human values, in: Zygon, Volume 12 Issue 2 Page 109-133.
1975, Energy Quality and Carrying Capacity of the Earth, response at prize awarding ceremony of Institute La Vie, Paris.
1973, Energy, ecology and economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Science. in: AMBIO, 2 (6), 220-227.
1963, with W.L. Slier, R.J. Beyers & N. Armstrong, Experiments with engineering of marine ecosystems, in: Publ. Inst. Marine Sci. Univ. Tex. 9:374-403.
1963, Limits of remote ecosystems containing man, in: The American Biology Teacher. 25 (6): 429-443.
1960a, Ecological potential and analog circuits for the ecosystem, in: Amer. Sci. 48:1-8.
1960b, Ten classroom sessions in ecology in: The American Biology Teacher. 22 (2): 71-78.
1958, with C.M. Hoskin, Comparative studies of the metabolism of Texas bays, in: Publ. Inst. March Sci., Univ. tex., 5:16-46.
1955, with E.P. Odum, Trophic structure and productivity of a winward coral reef community on Eniwetok Atoll, in: Ecological Monographs. 35, 291-320.
1950, The Biogeochemistry of Strontium: With Discussion on the Ecological Integration of Elements, A Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

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