"The Steady State and Ecological Salvation: A Thermodynamic Analysis"

by Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas (1977)

Abstract

The idea of ecological salvation through a stationary world is a symptom of the attraction which absence of change has always had for the scholarly mind. The world cannot, however, be a thermodynamic steady state, whether open or closed. A novel law of thermodynamics refutes the last case. The need is for a new scale of bioeconomic values.

Keywords

Environmental Economics, Thermodynamics, Sustainable Development, Ecology, Environmentalism, Sustainability, Bioeconomy

Themes

Steady State

Links to Reference

• https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-abstract/27/4/266/217535
• http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1297702

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