Overview
Thermodynamics and Ecological Modeling provides a book-length study - the first of its kind - of the current thinking on how an ecosystem can be explained and predicted in terms of its thermodynamical behavior. After the introductory chapters on the fundamentals of thermodynamics, the book will then explain how thermodynamic theory can be specifically applied to the "measurement" of an ecosystem, including the assessment of its state of entropy and enthalpy. Additionally, it will show economists how to put these theories to use when trying to quantify the movement of goods and services through another type of complex living system - human society.
- | Author: Sven E. Jorgensen
- | Publisher: CRC Press
- | Publication Date: Sep 28, 2000
- | Number of Pages: 384 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 1566702720
- | ISBN-13: 9781566702720
