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---559023410-758783491-1200712636=:8123 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Fyi, according to the director of marketing for University Press of=20 Colorado, this book is coming out in paperback later this year On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Ashwani Vasishth wrote: > At 04:42 PM -0500 1/18/08, Dan Fiscus wrote: >> a quote from the book, "A >> Prosperous Way Down: Principles and Policies", by Howard and >> Elizabeth Odum (2001) >> > There's an article as well, titled The Prosperous Way Down. > > http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=3DArticleURL&_udi=3DB6V2S-4CVRKB= T-6&_user=3D521393&_rdoc=3D1&_fmt=3D&_orig=3Dsearch&_sort=3Dd&view=3Dc&_acc= t=3DC000059568&_version=3D1&_urlVersion=3D0&_userid=3D521393&md5=3Dbdebd5ab= 3c2d51916e87bf39b6239159 > > Energy > Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 21-32 > The Second Biennial International Workshop "Advances in Energy Studies" > > doi:10.1016/j.energy.2004.05.012 > Copyright =A9 2004 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved. > > The prosperous way down > Howard T. Odum and Elisabeth C. Oduma, , > aSanta Fe Community College, 3000 NW 83rd Street, Gainesville, FL 32606, = USA > > Available online 14 July 2004. > > Abstract > Principles that appear to govern all systems including human societies we= re used to consider the time of economic descent ahead. These include the e= nergy laws, the emergy concept, the maximum empower principle, the universa= l energy hierarchy, the conservation and hierarchical distribution of mater= ials, the spatial organization of centers, and the pulsing paradigm. Popula= tion and cities, energy consumption and climate change, agriculture and env= ironment, information and electric power, capitalism and economic policies,= structures and materials, human life and standard of living are dealt with= in this paper as interconnected aspects of the same problem, i.e. the nece= ssary descent phase of human economies, due to decreasing resource base. We= expect much of the resource use, culture and public policy appropriate for= the growth period to be replaced with a new set of ethics and policies aff= ecting each scale of time and space during descent. Decisive changes in att= itudes and pract! > > ices can divert a destructive collapse, leading instead to a prosperous w= ay down. > Guy R. McPherson, Professor University of Arizona School of Natural Resources and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Biological Sciences East 325 Tucson, Arizona 85721 voice: 520-621-5389 fax: 520-621-8801 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://ag.arizona.edu/~grm/ blog:=09http://blog.ltc.arizona.edu/naturebatslast/ Read about my 2006 novel, "Academic Pursuits" at <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1413799698/sr=3D8-2/qid=3D1146851752/ref= =3Dsr_1_2/104-3436866-5550355?%5Fencoding=3DUTF8> Read about my 2006 book, "Letters to a Young Academic: Seeking Teachable Moments" at <http://www.rowmaneducation.com/ISBN/1578863376> Read about my 2005 book, "Killing the Natives: Has the American Dream Become a Nightmare?" at <http://www.whitmorebooks.com/kinahasamdrb.html> ---559023410-758783491-1200712636=:8123--
