Name: Energy Return on Investment: A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics, and Sustainability (Lecture Notes in Energy) (en Inglés)
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Author: Charles A.S. Hall
ISBN: 9783319478203

portada Energy Return on Investment: A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics, and Sustainability (Lecture Notes in Energy) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Springer

Autor

Charles A.S. Hall

Año

2016

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

174

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9783319478203

Categorías

Economías emergentes

Energy Return on Investment: A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics, and Sustainability (Lecture Notes in Energy) (en Inglés)

Charles A.s. Hall (Autor) · Springer · Tapa Dura

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This authoritative but highly accessible book presents the reader with a powerful framework for understanding the critical role of the energy return on investment (EROI) in the survival and well-being of individuals, ecosystems, businesses, economies and nations. Growth and development are fundamental and ubiquitous processes at all scales, from individuals to food crops to national economies. While we are all familiar with the concepts of economic growth and living standards as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), we often take for granted the energy use that underpins GDP and our expectations for year-on-year growth. In this book, you will learn how these measures of “progress” are completely dependent on the balance that can be achieved between energy costs (inputs) and gains. Nothing is made or moved without an energy surplus, and it is the EROI of available energy sources more than any other single factor that determines the shape of civilization.Nearly all politics and economics assume that policy and market forces are the levers upon which future outcomes will hinge. However, this book presents many examples of historical and current events that can be explained much more clearly from an energetic perspective. In addition, a future scenario is developed that gives a central place to EROI in assessing the potential of governmental and private initiatives to substitute so-called renewable energy sources for diminishing stocks of fossil fuels. When cheap fossil fuels are no longer available in the abundance needed to mask economic problems and power business as usual, it will be EROI more than the plethora of “green” technologies that creates the boundary conditions for a sustainable future.