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 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).
1. Climate Change and Circular Economics - p. iii 2. Cover - p. iii 3. Title Page - p. iii 4. Copyright Page - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. iv 6. Dedication - p. v 7. About the author - p. xi 8. Foreword - p. xiii 9. Preface - p. xv 10. Acknowledgments and credits - p. xxi 11. Chapter One Human society and nature interaction - p. 1 12. Chapter Two Irreversible thermodynamics view of the need for a circular economy - p. 25 13. Chapter Three Resource materials and recycling technologies - p. 37 14. Chapter Four Big data analysis for climate change proof and risk mitigation - p. 131 15. Chapter Five Brief considerations of economic indicators - p. 167 16. Chapter Six Green investment schemes for sustainability - p. 217 17. Chapter Seven Entropy in economics (bioeconomics, thermoeconomics, econophysics, and others) - p. 225 18. Chapter Eight Gibbs “paradox” in modal multivalued logic of experimenter - p. 255 19. Chapter Nine United Nations sustainable development goals - p. 263 20. Chapter Ten Final thoughts on approaching the future - p. 271 21. Index - p. 277
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 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).
1. Climate Change and Circular Economics - p. iii 2. Cover - p. iii 3. Title Page - p. iii 4. Copyright Page - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. iv 6. Dedication - p. v 7. About the author - p. xi 8. Foreword - p. xiii 9. Preface - p. xv 10. Acknowledgments and credits - p. xxi 11. Chapter One Human society and nature interaction - p. 1 12. Chapter Two Irreversible thermodynamics view of the need for a circular economy - p. 25 13. Chapter Three Resource materials and recycling technologies - p. 37 14. Chapter Four Big data analysis for climate change proof and risk mitigation - p. 131 15. Chapter Five Brief considerations of economic indicators - p. 167 16. Chapter Six Green investment schemes for sustainability - p. 217 17. Chapter Seven Entropy in economics (bioeconomics, thermoeconomics, econophysics, and others) - p. 225 18. Chapter Eight Gibbs “paradox” in modal multivalued logic of experimenter - p. 255 19. Chapter Nine United Nations sustainable development goals - p. 263 20. Chapter Ten Final thoughts on approaching the future - p. 271 21. Index - p. 277
