Entropy, Environment and Resources: An Essay in Physico-Economics

by Malte Faber, I. Pellengahr (Translator), Horst Niemes, Gunter Stephan

Overview

This book analyzes environmental protection and resource use in a comprehensive framework where not only economic but also natural scientific aspects are taken into consideration. The special features of the book are
(i) that the authors utilize a natural scientific variable, entropy, to characterize the economic system and the environment, (ii) that environmental protection and resource use are analyzed in combination, and (iii) that a replacement of techniques over time is analyzed. The authors investigate the use of the environment both as a supplier of resources and as a recipient of pollutants with the help of thermodynamic relationships. The book therefore provides a new set of tools for environmentalists and economists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540589846
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	05/12/1995
Edition description:	2nd ed. 1995
Pages:	205
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

0 Introduction: Starting Point, Objectives, and Content.- 0.1 Starting Point and Objectives.- 0.2 Content.- I. Environmental Protection.- 1 An Introduction to Dynamic Models of the Environment.- 2 A Disaggregated Environment-Capital Model.- II. Entropy and the Use of the Environment.- 3 The Notion of Entropy.- 4 Using the Entropy Approach to Characterize the Environment as a Supplier of Resources.- III. The Use of Scarce Resources with Decreasing Resource Concentration.- 5 The Integration of the Resource Problem into a Disaggregated Capital Model.- 6 Replacement of Techniques over Time.- IV. Environmental Protection and Resources.- 7 Interdependencies Between Environmental Protection and Resource Use Exemplified for Recycling and Deposition.- 8 References.- 9 Subject Index.