Given concerns about the environmental impacts of fossil fuel use, there is a keen interest in developing a broad range of new energy sources and technologies. This in turn creates a need for metrics that can reliably quantify the costs, benefits, and potential trade-offs of different...

Economists, investors and policy makers need to understand the changing climate of energy systems and the potential for investment in both alternative energy supply and demand side efficiency and management technologies. Biophysical economics has contributed to conventional economics by...

Economists, investors and policy makers need to understand energy systems and the potential for investment in both alternative energy supply and demand side technologies. Biophysical economics has contributed to conventional economics by incorporating thermodynamic and ecological principles and...