Energy, complexity, and sustainability: A historical perspective

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Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere (2015, background): “…and inequality), and some also include energy use (White 1959, Flannery 1972, Butzer 1982, Redman 1999, Redman et al. 2004, Sanderson 2006, Tainter 2006b, Abrutyn and Lawrence 2010, Nolan and Lenski 2010, Tainter 2011, Butzer 2012, Chase-Dunn and Lerro 2013, Fischer-Kowalski et al. 2014).”
Environmental and climate innovation: Limitations, policies and prices (2013, background): “A distinction between exergy and exergy service is made, where the first denotes potential work and the second actual work. argued by Tainter (2010), solutions to environmental (and other) problems humans face generally take the form of increasing complexity in technologies, organizations,…”
Reducing energy demand: A review of issues, challenges and approaches (2015, background): “Such societies evolved by accessing progressively larger energy ﬂ ows and they cannot be sustained in the absence of those ﬂ ows [6].”
Environmental education in transition: A critical review of recent research on climate change and energy education (2019, background): “From a transitions perspective, sustainability does not emerge as a “passive consequence of consuming less” (Tainter, 2011, p. 93) but through the driving force of multiple actors that purposefully shape transitions around a shared long-term vision of the future (Farla, Markard, Raven, & Coenen,…”