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

Climate Change and Circular Economics explores the capacity of human society to evolve in relation to the environment based on a more complex approach, highlighting the role of resource recovery by innovation in reducing temperature increase. It compares emerging economies' speed and impact on environmental capability to recover, and includes chapters on present society, a circular economy, big data analysis, economic indicators, risk maps, and the Gibbs paradox.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 25 June 2024
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Climate Change and Circular Economics: Human Society as a Closed Thermodynamic System is a groundbreaking book that goes beyond the traditional approach of "fighting climate change" to explore the capacity of human society to evolve in relation to the environment. The book emphasizes the role of resource recovery through innovation in reducing the temperature increase, which is determined through an irreversible thermodynamic approach. By comparing the speed of temperature increase contributed by selected economies to environmental recovery time constants, the book reveals that emerging economies have a much greater speed and consequently a larger impact on environmental capability to recover. The 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).

Weight: 450g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780443299698