Research
Recent Publications
2025, Howard T. Odum’s Contributions to Evolutionary Theory, doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2025.111263. Corrected references.
2024, An Emergy Analysis of Cultural Information: Tackling the Most Difficult Problem in Ecological Economics, doi.org/10.5890/JEAM.2024.06.005
2024, Parallel Cycles: Information in Culture, Manufacturing, and Life, doi.org/10.12775/EQ.2024.009
2023, Building With/On HT Odum’s Theory of Information, doi.org/10.1080/03081079.2022.2162048
2023, Evaluating Information with Emergy: How did HT Odum Incorporate Human Information into Emergy Accounting?, doi.org/10.1007/s44274-023-00007-z.
Research Areas
My publications and proceedings papers are organized under these themes. I have had several main research interests over the years, cultural evolution, complexity, Odum’s hierarchy and self-organization, cultural information, emergy analyses, ecotourism, and Taiwan prehistory. Rather than a simple list of papers where themes would overlap in time, I thought this approach would provide some organization. It also gives me a chance to introduce each of the themes individually at the link.
In general, I did not try very hard to publish my work. And so there are many conference papers that never went further. In our ‘teaching college’, journal publications were not required to ‘keep your job’. Proceedings would do, plus lots of teaching. All of that changed a few years ago, which motivated my ‘Recent Publications’, above. In the sections below, I highlighted what I think are BIG papers for me, in case anyone wants to read more.
