This book analyzes environmental protection and resource use in a comprehensive framework where not only economic but also natural scientific aspects are taken into consideration. The special features of the book are (i) that the authors utilize a natural scientific variable, entropy, to...

Jedes Jahr verursacht unsere bisherige Produktions- und Verbrauchsweise große Mengen an Hausmüll. An Industrieabfall, Bauschutt und Bodenaushub kommt noch die zehnfache Abfallmenge hinzu. Weit über die Hälfte dieser Mengen werden bisher deponiert. Sowohl aus geologischen als auch aus...

Jedes Jahr verursacht unsere bisherige Produktions- und Verbrauchsweise große Mengen an Hausmüll. An Industrieabfall, Bauschutt und Bodenaushub kommt noch die zehnfache Abfallmenge hinzu. Weit über die Hälfte dieser Mengen werden bisher deponiert. Sowohl aus geologischen als auch aus...

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...

Voluntary contributions of the industrialized countries are small compared to the financial resources, the developing countries need for adapting efficiently to global climate change. This leads to the conjecture that under the current climate policy architecture industrialized countries lack...

We analyze the strategic interaction between mitigation and adaptation in a non-cooperative game in which regions are players and mitigation and adaptation are perfect substitutes in protecting against climate impacts. We allow for step by step decision making, with mitigation chosen first and...