Increasing entropy: Heat death or perpetual harmonies?

International Journal of Design and Nature and Ecodynamics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 83-96

  Ulanowicz, R E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocatalysis; Complexity; Dissipation; Dualism; Ecosystems; Entropy; Heat death; Indeterminacy; Information; Monism; Nonequilibrium; Second law; Sustainability; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE RATIO; AUTOCATALYSIS; BOLTZMANN ENTROPY; DUALISM; NON EQUILIBRIUM; SECOND LAW; SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS; TROPHIC INTERACTIONS;

ECOSYSTEMS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

ENTROPY;

EID: 77952491577     PISSN: 17557437     EISSN: 17557445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V4-N2-83-96     Document Type: Article

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