Climate Change and Circular Economics
Human Society as a Closed Thermodynamic System
- 1st Edition - June 19, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Ionut Purica
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 9 6 9 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 9 7 0 - 4
Climate Change and Circular Economics: Human Society as a Closed Thermodynamic System aims to go beyond the concept of ‘fighting climate change’ to analyze the capacity of human… Read more
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Request a sales quoteClimate Change and Circular Economics: Human Society as a Closed Thermodynamic System aims to go beyond the concept of ‘fighting climate change’ to analyze the capacity of human society to evolve in relation to the environment based on a more complex approach. The book stresses the role of resource recovery by innovation in reducing the temperature increase, determined through an irreversible thermodynamic approach. Determining the speed of temperature increase contributed by selected economies and comparing these to environmental recovery time constants shows that emerging economies have a much greater speed and consequently a larger impact on environmental capability to recover.
Chapters progress from an analysis of present society as a dissipative open system to a thermodynamics view of the need for a circular economy, a big data analysis of climate change and risk mitigation, economic indicators, including entropy and economics, risk maps of climate change events risks, and insights into the ‘Gibbs paradox’, which describes the connection of two separate systems (like society and environment).
Chapters progress from an analysis of present society as a dissipative open system to a thermodynamics view of the need for a circular economy, a big data analysis of climate change and risk mitigation, economic indicators, including entropy and economics, risk maps of climate change events risks, and insights into the ‘Gibbs paradox’, which describes the connection of two separate systems (like society and environment).
- Offers a unique, intersectional perspective on climate change
- Introduces generational risk maps for climate change events, opening the possibility for insurance as well as other mitigation and adaptation policies
- Provides methods to determine the contribution of selected economies to temperature increase and speed of increase using irreversible thermodynamics that allows for comparison with environmental recovery time constants
- Ends with a solution of the Gibbs ‘paradox’ that relies not on binary logic, but rather a multivalued modal logic of possibilities that sheds a profound light on the interaction of separate spaces versus their combination
Researchers and Academics (Faculty, graduate students and researchers) in the fields of environmental studies, economics, energy, engineering, physics and innovation
1. Introduction
2. The present society as a dissipative open system
3. IrreversibleThermodynamics view of the need for a circular economy
• Turning waste into assets – the policy of resource management and new technologies; Food versus biofuels – an energy
balance approach; Geostrategy of resources and critical infrastructures
4. Big data analysis to seek climate change proof and its risk mitigation
• Hazard risks and their impact on critical infrastructures (case analysis - Natural gas networks of Italy and Romania)
5. Brief considerations on economic indicators
6. Entropy in economics (bioeconomics, thermoeconomics, econophysics, etc.)
7. Gibbs ‘paradox’ in a modal multivalued logic of the experimenter
• Measuring Technological Information and Entropy
2. The present society as a dissipative open system
3. IrreversibleThermodynamics view of the need for a circular economy
• Turning waste into assets – the policy of resource management and new technologies; Food versus biofuels – an energy
balance approach; Geostrategy of resources and critical infrastructures
4. Big data analysis to seek climate change proof and its risk mitigation
• Hazard risks and their impact on critical infrastructures (case analysis - Natural gas networks of Italy and Romania)
5. Brief considerations on economic indicators
6. Entropy in economics (bioeconomics, thermoeconomics, econophysics, etc.)
7. Gibbs ‘paradox’ in a modal multivalued logic of the experimenter
• Measuring Technological Information and Entropy
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 19, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 304
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443299698
- eBook ISBN: 9780443299704
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Ionut Purica
Prof.Ionut Purica is a corresponding member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists (AOSR), and a senior researcher in econophysics. He had worked in the World Bank, ENEA Rome and ICTP Trieste, Italy and RENEL Romania developing nonlinear models for energy systems development and economic decisions. He holds two PhDs: one in energy systems and the other in economics.
Affiliations and expertise
National Institute for Economic Forecasting, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, RomaniaRead Climate Change and Circular Economics on ScienceDirect