The Great Tohoku–Kanto earthquake and the resulting tsunami have brought considerable attention to the issue of building new nuclear power plants. In this paper we argue that nuclear power is not a sustainable solution to energy problems. First, we explore the stock of uranium-235 and the...

The Great Tohoku-Kanto earthquake and resulting tsunami has brought considerable attention to the issue of the construction of new power plants. We argue in this paper, nuclear power is not a sustainable solution to energy problems. First, we explore the stock of uranium-235 and the different...

This paper explores two major issues, from biophysical and historical viewpoints. We examine land management, which we define as the long-term fertility maintenance of land in relation to agriculture, fishery and forestry. We also explore humans’ positive role as agents aiming to reinforce...

This paper reports theoretical economic production work and uses electricity futures trading to illustrate its argument. The focus is relationships between time, production and tradition both in Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's analytical representation of the production process (i.e., flow/fund...

The main purpose of this paper is to examine to what extent the widely used energy accounting schemes are useful for dealing with sustainability issues in view of Georgescu-Roegen’s production process and its implications for the evolutionary aspects of the economic process. The first part...

This book connects Georgescu-Roegen's earlier work such as consumer choice theory and a critique of Leontief's dynamic model, with his later ambitious attempt to reformulate the economic process as 'bioeconomics'

1. The red pill -- 2. The process of demographic change : the importance of multi-scale and multi-level analysis -- 3. Going beyond economic energy intensity and environmental Kuznets Curves : combining extensive and intensive variables -- 4. The quality of quantitative analyses for governance :...

1. Can we solve the agro-biofuel riddle? -- 2. Learning from the past -- 3. Not everything that burns is a fuel -- 4. Pattern of societal metabolism across levels : a crash course in bio-economics -- 5. Assessment of the quality of alternative energy sources -- 6. Neglect of available wisdom --...