The Science and Philosophy of the "Thermodynamic School" of Evolution
This book was written by H. T. Odum and Elisabeth C. Odum and published in 2001. In it they argue that when societies pass the peek of their ability to use fossil fuels, there will be evolutionary selection for societies that develop more efficient ways of living. They describe how this transition can be handled…
This paper was written by H. T. Odum and published in 1995. In it he discusses his maximum empower principle and, among many other things, he mentions how Martinez-Alier (1987) discusses how a number of writers in the mid-19th century were working on similar ideas, and he describes the relation between the maximum power principle…