Entropy, environment and resources

• Verfasst von: Faber, Malte [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Niemes, Horst [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Stephan, Gunter [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Entropy, environment and resources
• Titelzusatz: an essay in physico-economics
• Werktitel: Entropie, Umweltschutz und Rohstoffverbrauch <engl.>
• Verf.angabe: M. Faber; H. Niemes; G. Stephan. With the cooperation of L. Freytag
• Verlagsort: Berlin ; Heidelberg
• Verlag: Springer
• Jahr: 1995
• Umfang: Online-Ressource (XIV, 205 p)
• Illustrationen: digital
• ISBN: 978-3-642-57832-8
• DOI: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-57832-8
• Schlagwörter: (s)Umweltökonomie / (s)Entropie / (s)Rohstoffverbrauch / (s)Wiener Schule <Wirtschaftswissenschaften> / (s)Kapitaltheorie
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• (Gesamttitel): Springer eBook Collection. Business and Economics
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Faber, Malte, 1938 - : Entropy, environment and resources. - 2. ed.. - Berlin : Springer, 1995. - XIV, 205 S
• RVK-Notation: AR 28100
• RVK-Notation: QT 200
• K10plus-PPN: 744923948

Abstract

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