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

by Malte Faber, Horst Niemes, and Gunter Stephan

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Long run aspects of environmental protection and of the use of resources areanalyzed within a planning model. To this end fundamental concepts of thermodynamics are explained in a simple manner. The relationships between entropy, energy necessary for the extraction of a resource and the concentration of the resource is employed to establish a connection between the economic systems and the environment.
  • ISBN10 3540182489
  • ISBN13 9783540182481
  • Publish Date 31 December 1987 (first published 16 November 1987)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 22 March 2008
  • Publish Country DE
  • Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
  • Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 205
  • Language English