Climate Change and Circular Economics - Human Society as a Closed Thermodynamic System

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).

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. The present society as a dissipative open system
3. IrreversibleThermodynamics view of the need for a circular economy
4. Big data analysis to seek climate change proof and its risk mitigation
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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ionut Purica, Ionut (National Institute for Economic Forecasting Purica, Purica Ionut
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9780443299698
• ISBN: 978-0-443-29969-8
• Weight: 510 g
• Series: Emerging Technologies and Materials in Thermal Engineering
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, Applied ecology, Economic systems & structures, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology, Circular economic systems