Infodynamics, a developmental framework for ecology/economics

Ecology and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Salthe, Stanley N ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Bang; Development; Developmental trajectories; Dissipative structures; Ecosocial systems; Energy gradient dissipation; Entropy production; Information; Minot Aoki law; Second law of thermodynamics; Senescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879921210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00571-070303     Document Type: Article

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