Research Area

Emergy Accounting

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2000 Ecosystems, Sociocultural Systems, and Ecological Economics for Understanding Development: The Case of Ecotourism on the Island of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Florida. [online] URL: http://etd.fcla.edu/etd/uf/2000/ane0595/Abel.pdf.

2007 “Emergy, Sociocultural Hierarchy, and Cultural Evolution” Proceedings from the 4th Biennial Emergy Research Conference, January 12-21, 2006, Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL

2010 “Human Transformities in a Global Hierarchy: Emergy and Scale in the Production of People and Culture.” Ecological Modelling 221:2112-2117, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.05.014

2017 “Pools of Money: ‘Information Cycles’ for the Production and Maintenance of Financial Information”. In Proceedings of the 9th Biennial Emergy Research Conference, Chapter 34, Gainesville, FL, 2016

2023 “Evaluating Information with Emergy: How Did Howard T. Odum Incorporate Human Information into Emergy Accounting?” Discover Environment 1,9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44274-023-00007-z

2024 “An Emergy Analysis of Cultural Information: Tackling the Most Difficult Problem in Ecological Economics” Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management, 12(2): 169-184. https://doi.org/10.5890/JEAM.2024.06.005