Thomas Abel

Publications

• Forthcoming, “Building With/On Howard T. Odum’s Theory of Information.”
  International Journal of General Systems.
• Forthcoming, “Parallel Cycles for the Evaluation of Information in Culture, Manufacturing, and Life”,
  Ecological Questions.
• 2018 “Information and Service in Emergy Analyses.”
  In Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Emergy Research Conference, Pp. 97-108, Gainesville, FL
• 2016 “Pools of Money: ‘Information Cycles’ for the Production and Maintenance of Financial Information.” 
  In Proceedings of the 9th Biennial Emergy Research Conference, Gainesville, FL
• 2015 “Cultural Transmission in Cycles: The Production and Maintenance of Cumulative Culture.” 
  Journal of Cognition and Culture, 15:443–492
• 2015 “Convergence and Divergence in the Production of Energy Transformation Hierarchies,” 
  Ecological Modelling 315:4–11
• 2014 “Evaluating Local Human-Ecological Impacts of Whale Watching Ecotourism in Taiwan.” 
  Taiwan Journal of Indigenous Studies, 7(4):63-88.
• 2014 “Culture in Cycles: Considering H.T. Odum’s ‘Information Cycle’.” 
  International Journal of General Systems. 43(1):44-74.
• 2013 “Conversation in Cycles: The Dynamics of Culture Sharing”.
  In Proceedings of the 7th Biennial Emergy Research Conference, Pp. 1-22, Gainesville, FL, 
• 2013 “Energy and the social hierarchy of households (and buildings).”
  In Architecture and Energy. W.W. Braham and D. Willis, eds. Pp. 49-63. Routledge. (video)
• 2013 “Emergy evaluation of DNA and culture in ‘information cycles’” 
  Ecological Modelling 251 (2013) 85–98
• 2011 “Culture in Information Cycles: An Emergy Evaluation of Discourse”.
  In Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Emergy Research Conference, Pp. 9-27, Gainesville, FL
• 2011 “The ‘Locations’ of People and Households within the Culture-Nature Hierarchy of Hualien County, Taiwan.”
  In Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Emergy Research Conference, Pp. 461-482, Gainesville, FL
• 2010 “Human Transformities in a Global Hierarchy: Emergy and Scale in the Production of People and Culture.”
  Ecological Modelling 221:2112-2117.
• 2007 “Pulsing and Cultural Evolution in China” Proceedings from the 4th Biennial Emergy Research Conference,
  January 12-21, 2006, Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL
• 2007 “Emergy, Sociocultural Hierarchy, and Cultural Evolution” Proceedings from the 4th Biennial Emergy Research Conference, January 12-21, 2006, Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL
• 2007 “World-Systems as Complex Human Ecosystems.” In The World System and the Earth System:
  Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability since the Neolithic.
  A. Hornborg and C. Crumley, eds. Pp. 56-73. Wallnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
• 2004 “Systems Diagrams for Visualizing Macroeconomics.” Ecological Modeling 178(2):189-194.
  Abel, Thomas, and John R. Stepp
• 2003 “A New Ecosystems Ecology for Anthropology.” Conservation Ecology 7(3):12.
• 2003 “Understanding Complex Human Ecosystems: The Case of Ecotourism on Bonaire.”
  Conservation Ecology 7(3):10.
• 2003 “Social Structure and Ecotourism Development on Bonaire”. Proceedings from the 2nd Biennial Emergy Research Conference, September 20-22, 2001, Center for Environmental Policy, Gainesville, FL
• 2000 Ecosystems, Sociocultural Systems, and Ecological Economics for Understanding Development: The Case of Ecotourism on the Island of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Florida.
• 1998 “Complex Adaptive Systems, Evolutionism, and Ecology within Anthropology: Interdisciplinary Research for Understanding Cultural and Ecological Dynamics”, Georgia Journal of Ecological Anthropology (2):6-29.