Research Area
Structure and Hierarchy in Nature and Society
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2001 "Social Structure and Ecotourism Development on Bonaire". Proceedings from the 2nd Biennial Emergy Research Conference, September 20-22, 2001, Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL
2003 “Understanding Complex Human Ecosystems: The Case of Ecotourism on Bonaire.” Conservation Ecology 7(3):10. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol7/iss3/art10.
2004 “Systems Diagrams for Visualizing Macroeconomics.” Ecological Modeling 178(2):189-194, doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2003.12.035
2007 “World-Systems as Complex Human Ecosystems.” In The World System and the Earth System: Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability since the Neolithic. A. Hornborg and C. Crumley, eds. Pp. 56-73. Wallnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
This was an amazing experience, being invited to a World-Systems conference in Lund, Sweden by Alf Hornborg. Andre Gunter Frank was there, Immanuel Wallerstein was there. Two beautiful edited volumes came out of the conference. My paper was given prestigious position in the 4th Chapter of one of the volumes, but I felt my presentation was only fair, and I have some regrets about missed opportunities. Too timid in front of those big shots, a common experience.
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
2009 “Testing Principles of Spatial Hierarchy: What Households Research Has to Say” Paper presented at the 5th Biennial emergy Research Conference, January, 2008.
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
2011 “The 'Locations' of People and Households within the Culture-Nature Hierarchy of Hualien County, Taiwan.” In Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Emergy Research Conference, Pp. 461-482, Gainesville, FL, 2011
2013 “Energy and the Social Hierarchy of Households (and Buildings).” In Architecture and Energy. W.W. Braham and D. Willis, eds. Pp. 49-63. Routledge.
This paper came from another great conference invitation, this time to Philadelphia for the Architecture and Energy Conference at UPenn organized by Bill Braham. According to Bill, he discovered my dissertation some years ago and teaches it to his graduate students. I can attest to that because his students had some very informed questions for me about Bonaire after my talk. He is a regular at the Biennial Emergy Conference.
2015 “Convergence and Divergence in the Production of Energy Transformation Hierarchies,” Ecological Modelling 315:4–11, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.11.028
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
2017 “Manufacturing in Cycles: Tertiary No More!”. Paper presented at the International Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference (ISEM 2017), September 17-21, 2017, Ramada Plaza, Jeju, Korea.
2023 “Building With/On Howard T. Odum’s Theory of Information.” In International Journal of General Systems. https://doi.org/10.1080/03081079.2022.2162048