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Kozo Mayumi (眞弓 浩三) is a Japanese mathematician and applied economist who was disciple of Romanian mathematician and economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Mayumi further extended Georgescu-Roegen's theories on entropy in the study of energy analysis. His research topics include:
 * energy budget of dissipative adaptive systems (Holarchies),
 * Jevons' paradox and resource efficiency
 * the energetics of modern society (2009, 2011a, 2011b).
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Since 2000, Mayumi has been developing, in collaboration with Mario Giampietro, a new method of analysis called Multi-Scale Integrated Assessment of Societal Metabolism (MuSIASEM) based on Georgescu-Roegen's fund-flow model and a post-normal approach to science for governance. This innovative method has been applied to energy supply issues and could be also used to other issues related to water supply and food supply.

TO BE DELETED: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, born Nicolae Georgescu (Constanţa, Romania, 4 February 1906 – Nashville, Tennessee, 30 October 1994) was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist, best known for his 1971 magnum opus The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, which situated the view that the second law of thermodynamics, i.e., that usable "free energy" tends to disperse or become lost in the form of "bound energy", governs economic processes. He is also considered "one of the key intellectual progenitors of ecological economics" and what would become the "Minimal bioeconomic program."

Biography
Mayumi completed his MS in engineering from Kyoto University in 1979, a second MA from Vanderbilt University in 1988 in economics, working under Georgescu-Roegen, with a thesis on “Land: Ecological and Economic Achilles’ Heel”, and a PhD from Kyoto University, with a dissertation on “Studies on Georgescu-Roegen’s Bioeconomic Paradigm”, from the Graduate school of Engineering at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics. In more detail, from 1984 to 1988, Mayumi studied Bioeconomics at the Department of Economics of Vanderbilt University under the supervision of Romanian mathematician Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen.

Since then, Mayumi has been working in the areas of energy analysis, ecological economics, and complex hierarch theory. He is currently a professor at the University of Tokushima.

TO BE DELETED: A principal contribution to economics by Georgescu-Roegen was the concept of entropy from thermodynamics (as distinguished from the mechanistic foundation of neoclassical economics drawn from Newtonian physics) as well as foundational work which later developed into evolutionary economics. His work contributed significantly to bioeconomics and to ecological economics. He was a protégé of the renowned economist Joseph Schumpeter. His own protégés included foundational ecological economist Herman E. Daly and Kozo Mayumi who further extended Georgescu-Roegen’s theories on entropy in the study of energy analysis.

Books

 * Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi and Alev Sorman : The Energetics of Modern Societies, Springer, Heidelberg, Dec. 2011.
 * Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi and Alev Sorman : The Metabolic Pattern of Societies: Where Economists Fall Short, Routledge, London, Nov. 2011.
 * Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi : The Biofuel Delusion, The Earthscan, London, Aug. 2009.
 * John Polimeni, Kozo Mayumi, Mario Giampietro and Blake Alcott : The Myth of Resource Efficiency, Earthscan, London, Jun. 2009.
 * John Polimeni, Kozo Mayumi, Mario Giampietro and Blake Alcott : The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements, Earthscan, London, Jan. 2008.
 * Kozo Mayumi : The Origins of Ecological Economics: The Bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen, Routledge, London, Jul. 2001.
 * Kozo Mayumi and John Gowdy : Bioeconomics and Sustainability: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Edward Elgar, London, Aug. 1999.

Selected publications

 * Kozo Mayumi and Giampietro Mario : Dimensions and Logarithmic Function in Economics:A Short Critical Analysis, Ecological Economics, Vol.69, pp.1604--1609, 2010.
 * Mark Glucina and Kozo Mayumi : Connecting Thermodynamics and Economics, Ecological Economics Reviews, Vol.1185, pp.11--29, 2010.
 * John Gowdy, Mario Giampietro, Jesus Ramos-Martin and Kozo Mayumi : Incorporating Biophysical Foundations in a Hierarchical Model of Societal Metabolism, Post Keynesian and Ecological Economics (Ric Holt, Clive Spash & Steven Pressman, Editors), pp.203--220, 2009.
 * Mario Giampietro, Timothy Allen and Kozo Mayumi : The epistemological predicament associated with purposive quantitative analysis, Ecological Complexity, Vol.3, pp.307--327, 2006.
 * Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi and Jesus Ramos-Martin : How serious is the addiction to oil of developed society? A multi-scale integrated analysis based on the concept of societal and ecosystem metabolism: Part 2, International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research, Vol.2, pp.42--92, 2006.
 * Mario Giampietro, Tim Allen and Kozo Mayumi : Science for Governance, Interfaces between Science and Society, pp.82--99, 2006.
 * Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi and David Pimentel : Mathematical Models of Society and Development, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, 2006.
 * Kozo Mayumi and Mario Giampietro : The epistemological challenge of self-modifying systems, Ecological Economics, Vol.57, pp.382--399, 2006.
 * Tiziano Gomiero, Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi : Facing complexity on agro-ecosystems, Int. J. Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, Vol.5, No.2/3, pp.116--144, 2006.
 * Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi and Giuseppe Munda : Integrated assessment and energy analysis, Energy, Vol.31, pp.59--86, 2006.
 * Kozo Mayumi : An epistemological critique of the open Leontief dynamic model, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol.16, pp.540--556, 2005.
 * Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi: Complex Systems and Energy, Encyclopedia of Energy, Vol.Vol. 1, pp.617-631, 2004.
 * Kozo Mayumi and Mario Giampietro: Entropy in Ecological Economics, Modelling in Ecological Economics, pp.80-101, 2004.
 * John Gowdy and Kozo Mayumi: Reformulating the Foundations of Consumer Choice Theory and Environmental Valuation, Ecological Economics, Vol.39, pp.223-237, 2001.
 * Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi and Gianni Pastore: Energy Analysis as a Tool for Sustainability: Lessons from Complex System Theory, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol.879, pp.344-367, 1999.
 * Kozo Mayumi and John Gowdy: Theory and Reality: The Life, Work and Thought of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Bioeconomics and Sustainability: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, pp.1-12, 1999.


 * REMINDER!!!! ADD selected MuSIASEM publications
 * Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi and Jesus Ramos-Martin : Multi-scale integrated analysis of societal and ecosystem metabolism (MuSIASEM), Energy, Vol.34, pp.313--322, 2009.
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On NGR:
 * Kozo Mayumi : Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906-1994), Development and Change, Vol.40, No.6, pp.1235--1254, 2009.
 * Kozo Mayumi: Embodied Energy Analysis, Sraffa's Analysis, Georgescu-Roegen's Flow-Fund Model and Viability of Solar Technology, Bioeconomics and Sustainability: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, pp.173-193, 1999.
 * Kozo Mayumi, Mario Giampietro and John Gowdy: Georgescu-Roegen/Daly versus Solow / Stiglits Revisited, Ecological Economics, Vol.27, pp.115-117, 1998.

Development of MuSIASEM:
 * Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi and Joan Martinez-Alier: Introduction to the Special Issues on Societal Metabolism: Blending New Insights from Complex System Thinking with Old Insights from Biophysical Analyses of the Economic Process, Population and Environment, Vol.22, No.2, pp.97-108, 2000.
 * Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi: Multiple-Scale Integrated Assessment of Societal Metabolism: Introducing the Approach, Population and Environment, Vol.22, No.2, pp.109-154, 2000.
 * Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi: Multiple-Scale Integrated Assessment of Societal Metabolism: Integrating Biophysical and Economic Representations Across Scales, Population and Environment, Vol.22, No.2, pp.155-210, 2000.
 * Gianni Pastore, Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi: Societal Metabolism and Multiple Scale Integrated Assessment: Empirical Validation and Examples of Application, Population and Environment, Vol.22, No.2, pp.211-254, 2000.
 * Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi and Bukkens Sandra: Multiple-Scale Integrated Assessment of Societal Metabolism: An Analytical Tool to Study Development and Sustainability, Environment, Development and Sustainability, Vol.3, pp.275-307, 2001.
 * Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi: Forget about the Occam Razor, --- Looking for Multi-Scale Mosaic Effects ---, Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems, pp.129-170, 2003.
 * Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi: Impredicative Loop Analysis, --- Dealing with the Representation of Chicken-Egg Processes ---, Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems, pp.171-230, 2003.
 * Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi: Sustainability Requires the Ability to Generate Useful Narratives Capable of Surfing Complex Time, Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems, pp.231-275, 2003.
 * Jesus Ramos-Martin, Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi : On China's exosomatic energy metabolism, Ecological Economics, Vol.63, No.1, pp.174--191, 2007.
 * Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi and Jesus Ramos-Martin : Multi-scale integrated analysis of societal and ecosystem metabolism (MuSIASEM), Energy, Vol.34, pp.313--322, 2009.