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

Malte Faber (Author), Horst Niemes (Author), Gunter Stephan (Author), Ingo Pellengahr (Translator), Lutz Freytag (Assistant)


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3540182489 978-3540182481 December 17, 1987 1
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.

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waste treatment sector, first model variant, second model variant, gross emissions, centralized waste treatment, resource concentration, mental sector, waste treatment costs, pollution function, infinitely small change, economic subsystem, consequential costs, net emissions, several pollutants, consumption sector, natural purification, entropy approach, environmental goods, marginal damage, resource quantities, waste treatment process, negative flow, waste treatment system
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Second Law, Fundamental Equation, Characterize the Environment, Capital Accumulation, Using the Entropy Approach, Federal Republic of Germany
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