In recent years, the economy has determined the agenda when environmental issues are concerned using cost/benefit analyses. This inevitably leads to wrong decisions because the uncertainties of the cost/benefit analyses are often magnitudes higher than that estimated by the economists. Therefore, these analyses should be replaced or supplemented by the concept of sustainability to aid the decision-making process. This book represents the first attempt to apply eco-exergy, a thermodynamic concept used to describe the development of ecosystems, to express sustainability and use it in a non-ecological context.
- ISBN10 1280791861
- ISBN13 9781280791864
- Publish Date 1 January 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WIT Press (UK)
- Format eBook
- Pages 225
- Language English