Self-Organization and Dissipative Structures : : Applications in the Physical and Social Sciences / / ed. by Peter M. Allen, William C. Schieve.

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• MitwirkendeR: Allen, P. M.,; Andresen, Bjarne,; Beckmann, Martin J.,; Berry, R. Stephen,; Carneiro, Robert L.,; Davidson, Russell,; Deneubourg, J. L.,; Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas,; Herman, Robert,; Horsthemke, W.,; Horsthemke, Werner,; Jantsch, Erich,; Kahn, D.,; Lam, Tenny N.,; Mandelbrot, Benoit B.,; Maruyama, Magoroh,; Montroll, Elliott W.,; Newbold Adams, Richard,; Pahaut, Serge,; Palma, A. de,; Palma, André de,; Prigogine, I.,; Rodellar, J.,; Schieve, W. C.,; Stengers, Isabelle,; Stucki, J. W.,; Turner, Jack S.,; Wagensberg, J.,; Wilson, A. G.,; Zurek, W. H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Allen, Peter M.,; Schieve, William C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)

The contributions to this volume attempt to apply different aspects of Ilya Prigogine's Nobel-prize-winning work on dissipative structures to nonchemical systems as a way of linking the natural and social sciences. They address both the mathematical methods for description of pattern and form a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. The Challenge of Complexity
• 2. Self-Organization in Nonequilibrium Chemistry and in Biology
• 3. On the Dynamics of Technological Evolutions: Phase Transitions
• 4. The Many Faces of Scaling: Fractals, Geometry of Nature, and Economics
• 5. Successive Reequilibrations as the Mechanism of Cultural Evolution
• 6. The Emergence of Hierarchical Social Structure: The Case of Late Victorian England
• 7. Self-Organization in the Urban System
• 8. Criticality and Urban Retail Structure: Aspects of Catastrophe Theory and Bifurcation
• 9. Trip Making and Locational Choice
• 10. Creation of Order by Environmental Noise in the Volterra-Lotka Model
• 11. Noise-Induced Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions
• 12. Nucléation Paradigm: Survival Threshold in Population Dynamics
• 13. The Efficiency of Oxidative Phosphorylation and the Thermodynamic Buffer Enzymes
• 14. Patterns of Nonequilibrium Organization in a Marine Bacterial Population
• 15. Boolean Equations with Temporal Delays
• 16. Remarks on Traffic Flow Theories and the Characterization of Traffic in Cities
• 17. Fluctuations in Demand and Transportation Mode Choice
• 18. A Calibration of the Boltzmann-Like Theory of Traffic Flow
• 19. Energy Analysis and Technology Assessment
• 20. Thermodynamic Constraints in Economic Analysis
• 21. Economic Dynamics
• 22. From Self-Reference to Self-Transcendence: The Evolution of Self-Organization Dynamics
• 23. Four Different Causal Metatypes in Biological and Social Sciences