Energy and economy: Recognizing high-energy modernity as a historical period

Economic Anthropology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 6-16

  Love, Thomas ^a   Isenhour, Cindy ^b  

^a LINFIELD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture Change; Future; Infrastructure; Net Energy; Public Anthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027813548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12040     Document Type: Editorial

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