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Full Description
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.
Contents
Contents: Introduction: Starting Point, Objectives and Content.- Environmental Protection: An Introduction to Dynamic Models of the Environment. A Disaggregated Environment-Capital Model.- Entropy and the Use of the Environment: The Notion of Entropy. Using the Entropy Approach to Characterize the Environment as a Supplier of Resources.- The Use of Scarce Resources with Decreasing Resource Concentration: The Integration of the Resource Problem into a Disaggregated Capital Model. Replacement of Techniques over Time.- Environmental Protection and Resources: Interdependencies between Environmental Protection and Resource Use Exemplified for Recycling and Deposition.- References.- Subject Index.
