Climate Change and Circular Economics: Human Society as a Closed Thermodynamic System aims to go beyond the concept of ‘fighting climate change,’ to analyze the capacity of human society to evolve in relation to the environment based on a more complex approach stressing the role of resource recovery by innovation in reducing the temperature increase, determined through an irreversible thermodynamic approach. Determining the speed of temperature increase contributed by selected economies and comparing these to environmental recovery time constants shows that emerging economies have a much greater speed and consequently a larger impact on environmental capability to recover. 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), analyzed based on a multivalued modal logic that delivers a new way of approaching climate challenges.
1. Introduction
2. The present society as a dissipative open system
3. IrreversibleThermodynamics view of the need for a circular economy
4. Big data analysis to seek climate change proof and its risk mitigation
5. Brief considerations on economic indicators
6. Entropy in economics (bioeconomics, thermoeconomics, econophysics, etc.)
7. Gibbs paradox in a modal multivalued logic of the experimenter
Prof.Ionut Purica is a corresponding member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists (AOSR), and a senior researcher in econophysics. He had worked in the World Bank, ENEA Rome and ICTP Trieste, Italy and RENEL Romania developing nonlinear models for energy systems development and economic decisions. He holds two PhDs: one in energy systems and the other in economics.
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