Call number:
PIK B 160-11-0030
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: Preface ; I. Energy Systems and Social Evolution ; 1. Palaeolithic Hunter-gatherer Societies ; 2. The Neolithic Revolution and the Problem of Dynamics ; 3. Traditional Agriculture - A Controlled Solar Energy System ; 4. The Structure of the Agrarian Energy System ; 5. The Dynamics of Agrarian Society ; 6. Crisis and Transformation ; 7. The Industrial System and Fossil Energy ; II. Forest and Wood in Preindustrial Germany ; 1. Natural Foundations ; 2. Preindustrial Wood Consumption ; 3. Regulation Problems ; III. England: Coal in the Industrial Revolution ; 1. Substitution of Wood by Coal ; 2. Wood and Coal in Iron Smelting ; 3. Transport and Steam Power ; 4. Significance of Coal in the Industrial Revolution ; IV. Germany in the 18th Century: Wood Crisis and Strategies for Solutions ; 1. Conserving Wood ; 2. Functional Separation of Agriculture and Forestry ; 3. Substitution for Wood ; 4. Was the Wood Crisis an Energy Crisis? ; V. Perceptions of Fossil Energy ; 1. The Finiteness of Fossil Fuels ; 2. Classical Political Economy and the Stationary State ; 3. Jevons and the Contraction of the Industrial System ; 4. Nuclear or Solar Energy ; Bibliography
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
X, 230 S. : graph. Darst.
Edition:
1. pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9781874267539
Uniform Title:
Der unterirdische Wald
Language:
English
Location:
A 18 - must be ordered
Branch Library:
PIK Library
