7 questions for energy concept in ecosystems science

Seven questions that fall in the gap between economics and the science of physics and chemistry are posed in a search for eventual improved insight into the processes providing ecosystem services. Economics and science are like two different cultures that both began in an era of awe at Newtonian physics. Economics has continued with models based on that while science has made giant steps into new levels of discovery. The paths of scientific revolution have been bumpy and ad hoc, pragmatically resolving technical questions in ways that “work†, sometimes oblivious of the need for elegance that would explain the macroscopic view of ecosystems. Economic analysis of ecosystem services needs to reverse engineer some scientific discoveries, especially the concept behind the term “energy†, and rebuild in logical blocks that embrace a wider boundary with a clearer focus of workings in space and time.