MINE Thermodynamics

4.1 Literature Recommendations

Key Literature

Recommendations for Further Reading ????

4.2 References

Thermodynamics

Balian, R. (1991) From Microphysics to Macrophysics I. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, New York. An excellent overview over the historical development of thermodynamics..

Boltzmann, L. (1877) Wiener Berichte 76: 373 ff.

Boulding, K.E., (1966) “The Economics of the coming Spaceship Earth”, in H. Jarrett (ed.), Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy, Baltimore an London, John Hopkins University Press: 3-14

Carnot, S. (1824) Reflection sur la puissance mortice de feu et sur lea machines propres á developer cette puissance, Bachelier, Paris.

Clausius, R. (1854) Fortschritte der Physik 10.

Clausius, R. (1865) Annalen der Physik, 125: 353ff. Both are classical papers.

Iha, A. (2013) “What is the second law of thermodynamics?”, Guardian, 2013, December 1^st https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/01/what-is-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics. This paper gives a good and very short introduction into thermodynamics

Kelvin, Lord William Thompson (1852) “On the universal tendency in nature to the dissipation of mechanical energy” Philosophical Magazine 4: 304ff. A classical paper

Stumpf, H. and A. Rieckers (1976) Thermodynamik (Thermodynamics), Vols. 1 and 2, Vieweg, Braunschweig.

Ecological Economics

Ayres, R. U., (1978) Resources, Environment, and Economics. .Application of Materials/Energy Balance Principle, New York, Wiley.

Baumgärtner, S. (2000): “Thermodynamic of waste generation”. In K. Bisson and J. Proops (editors), Waste in Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK., and Northampton, MA, USA.

Baumgärtner, S. (2005) “Thermodynamic Models”, in J. Proops and P. Safonov (editors),

Modelling in Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, USA: 102-129.

Baumgärtner, S., M. Faber and L.R. Proops (1995) “Entropy: a unifying Concept for Ecological Economics”, Discussion Paper No. 226 , Department of Economics University of Heidelberg. Published as Chapter 6 in Faber, M., R. Manstetten and J.L.R. Proops (2002).

Baumgärtner, S., M. Faber and L.R. Proops (1995a) “The use of the entropy concept I ecological economics”, Discussion Paper No. 227 , Department of Economics University of Heidelberg. Published as Chapter 7 in Faber, M., R. Manstetten and J.L.R. Proops (2002).

Baumgärtner, S., Faber, M. and Schiller, J. (2006), Joint Production and Responsibility. On the Foundation of Environmental Policy, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. This book contains the research on joint production carried out in Heidelberg during the years 1990 until 2006. It is coauthored by ten researchers.

Baumgärtner, S., Dyckhoff, H., Faber, M., Proops, J.L.R. and Schiller, J., (2001). The Concept of Joint Production and Ecological Economics. Ecological Economics, 36: 365-372. This short paper is the conceptual basis for the element Joint Production.

Boulding, K.E., (1966) “The Economics of the coming Spaceship Earth”, in H. Jarrett (ed.), Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy, Baltimore an London, John Hopkins University Press: 3-14. A Pioneering Paper on Ecological Economics.

Daly, H.E. (1977) Steady State Economics: the Economics of Biophysical Equilibrium and Moral Growth, San Francisco, Freeman. A classic text on Ecological Economics.

Dyke, C. (1988) “Cities as Dissipative Structures”, in W.H. Weber, D.J. Depew and J. D. Smith (eds.).

Eddington, A.S. (1928) The Nature of the Physical World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Faber, M., F. Jöst, R. Manstetten and G. Müller-Fürstenberger (1996), ‘Kuppelproduktion und Umweltpolitik: Eine Fallstudie zur Chlorchemie und zur Schwefelsäureindustrie’, Journal für praktische Chemie (Chemikerzeitung), 338, 497–505.

Faber, M., R. Manstetten and.L.R. Proops (2002) Ecological Economics. Concepts and Methods, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U., Northhampton, Ma, USA. Chapter 6 and this book deal extensively with thermodynamics.

Faber, M., H. Niemes and G. Stephan (1995/1983), Entropie, Umweltschutz und Rohstoﬀverbrauch: Eine naturwissenschaftlich ökonomische Untersuchung, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York: Springer, English translation: Entropy, Environment and Resources: An Essay in Physico-Economics, 2nd ed. 1995, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York: Springer. Translated into Chinese in 1990. This is one of the first books introducing analytically thermodynamics into Ecological Economics. – An extensive introduction of the notion of entropy for non-physicists is given in Chapters 3 and 4.

Georgescu-Roegen, N. (1971) The Entropy Law and the Economic Process. Harvard University Press, Cambridge/Mass. This is the classic and unsurpassed monography on the foundations of Ecological Economic:s

Georgescu-Roegen, N. (1979) “Energy Analysis and Economic Valuation,” Southern Economic Journal 45: 1023-1058.

Koopmans, T. (1973) “Economics Among the Sciences”. American Economic Revue 69: 1-13.

Proops, J.R (1985) “Thermodynamics and economics: from analogy to physical functioning”, in W. van Gool and J.J.C.Bruggink (eds.), Energy and time in the Economic and Physical Sciences. North-Holland, Amsterdam.

Information Theory

Shannon, C.E (1948) “A mathematical theory of communication”, Bell System Technical Journal 27: 379-423, 623-656. (Reprinted in C.E. Shannon and Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, University of Illinois Press, Urbana ILL, 1949). A classic paper on information theory.

Shannon, C.E, and W. Weaver (1949) The Mathematical Theory of Communication, University of Illinois Press, Urbana ILL. A standard work on information theory.