Eco-Exergy as Sustainability
Authors: S.E. Jørgensen, The University of Pharmeceutical Science, Denmark
Price
$193.00 (free shipping)
ISBN
978-1-84564-059-0
eISBN
978-1-84564-222-8
Pages
224
Book Series Title
The Sustainable World
Book Series
16
Published
2006
Format
Hardback
In recent years, the economy has determined the agenda when environmental issues are concerned using cost/benefit analyses. This inevitably leads to wrong decisions because the uncertainties of the cost/benefit analyses are often magnitudes higher than that estimated by the economists. Therefore, these analyses should be replaced or supplemented by the concept of sustainability to aid the decision-making process.
This book represents the first attempt to apply eco-exergy, a thermodynamic concept used to describe the development of ecosystems, to express sustainability and use it in a non-ecological context.
