{"id":12,"date":"2026-08-18T18:20:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:20:57","slug":"the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"The Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"margin-bottom:0\"><strong>Emergy:<\/strong> The Coupling of Human and Natural Systems<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">Mark T. Brown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">University of Florida Press \u00b7 Forthcoming Spring 2027<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-794e3cfa wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:35%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"717\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Cover-04-717x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Cover-04-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Cover-04-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Cover-04-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Cover-04-1075x1536.jpg 1075w, https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Cover-04-1434x2048.jpg 1434w, https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Cover-04-scaled.jpg 1792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About the Book<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Modern society depends on immense flows of energy, materials, and information generated through environmental processes. Conventional economic measures provide little insight into the biophysical foundations that make these flows possible.&nbsp;<em>Emergy: The Coupling of Human and Natural Systems<\/em>&nbsp;presents a framework for understanding and measuring the contributions of environmental processes to the resources, goods, and services that support human society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Drawing on more than four decades of research, the book presents the principles, methods, and applications of emergy accounting, from energy quality, transformity, and self-organization to the evaluation of ecosystems, production systems, national economies, and international trade. It incorporates recent advances in emergy science while placing them within the broader framework of systems ecology and biophysical economics. Written for students, researchers, and professionals, the book serves both as an introduction to emergy and as a reference for its application to environmental assessment, resource management, ecological economics, and sustainability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergy: The Coupling of Human and Natural Systems Mark T. Brown University of Florida Press \u00b7 Forthcoming Spring 2027 About the Book Modern society depends on immense flows of energy, materials, and information generated through environmental processes. Conventional economic measures provide little insight into the biophysical foundations that make these flows possible.&nbsp;Emergy: The Coupling of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"homepage","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergysystems.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}