This textbook covers the physical and chemical aspects of estuaries, the biology and ecology of key organisms, the flow of organic matter through estuaries, and human interactions, such as the environmental impact of fisheries on estuaries and the effects of global climate change on these important ecosystems. Each chapter will begin with basic concepts and then move on to describing applications and current practice. This new edition is being authored by a team of world experts from the estuarine science community.

Estuarine Ecology

Science & Math

Day Jr., John W.

Kemp, W. Michael

Hall, Charles A.S.

Yáñez-Arancibia, Alejandro

Biological Sciences

Wiley-Interscience

Integrates and synthesizes concepts pertaining to energy and resource quality, originally derived in the natural and physical sciences, and applies them to human economic systems. Examines how energy is used to transform natural resources into economic goods and analyzes the economic implications of fluctuating energy costs. Applies the concept of Energy Return on Investment to measure economic effects of rising energy costs and to evaluate alternatives. Treats characteristics of alternative energy sources, environmental effects of energy extraction and use, and management of energy resources.

Energy and Resource Quality: The Ecology of the Economic Process (Environmental Science and Technology: A Wiley-Interscience Series of Texts and Monographs)

Kaufmann, Robert

Cleveland, Cutler J.

Business & Money

Book by Hall, Charles A. S., Cleveland, Cutler J., Kaufmann, Robert

Energy and Resource Quality: The Ecology of the Economic Process

Economics

Univ Pr of Colorado

For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers. In this “perpetual motion” of interactions between firms that produce and households that consume, little or no accounting is given of the flow of energy and materials from the environment and back again. In the standard economic model, energy and matter are completely recycled in these transactions, and economic activity is seemingly exempt from the Second Law of Thermodynamics. As we enter the second half of the age of oil, and as energy supplies and the environmental impacts of energy production and consumption become major issues on the world stage, this exemption appears illusory at best. 
In Energy and the Wealth of Nations, concepts such as energy return on investment (EROI) provide powerful insights into the real balance sheets that drive our “petroleum economy.” Hall and Klitgaard explore the relation between energy and the wealth explosion of the 20th century, the failure of markets to recognize or efficiently allocate diminishing resources, the economic consequences of peak oil, the EROI for finding and exploiting new oil fields, and whether alternative energy technologies such as wind and solar power meet the minimum EROI requirements needed to run our society as we know it. This book is an essential read for all scientists and economists who have recognized the urgent need for a more scientific, unified approach to economics in an energy-constrained world, and serves as an ideal teaching text for the growing number of courses, such as the authors’ own, on the role of energy in society.

Energy and the Wealth of Nations: Understanding the Biophysical Economy

Klitgaard, Kent A.

Springer

In this book, Chinese energy experts provide a unique overview of the Chinese oil industry. Presenting previously unpublished data, the book examines trends in production and consumption of global significance through to the middle of the 21st century.

The Chinese Oil Industry: History and Future (Energy Analysis)

Wang, Jianliang

Feng, Lianyong

Hu Yan

This book offers the first bulk analysis of a large-scale, real-world deployment of 3.5 GW of installed, grid-connected solar plants in Spain, including all of the factors that limited and adjusted the real electricity output through one full-year cycle.

Spain’s Photovoltaic Revolution: The Energy Return on Investment (Energy Analysis)

Prieto, Pedro A.

According to the conventional wisdom, we live in a post-industrial information age. This book, however, paints a different picture: We live in the age of oil. Petroleum fuels and feedstocks are responsible for much of what we take for granted in modern society, from chemical products such as fertilizer and plastics, to the energy that moves people and goods in a global economy. Oil is a nearly perfect fuel: Energy dense, safe to store, easy to transport, and mostly environmentally benign. Most importantly, oil has been cheap and abundant during the past 150 years. In 1998, two respected geologists, Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrère, published a detailed article announcing that the 'end of cheap oil' would happen before 2010, which meant that the world would face a peak, or at least a plateau, in global daily oil production in the first decade of the new millennium. Today, two billion people under the age of 14 have lived the majority of their lives past the point when this century-long growth in oil supplies came to an end, which also marks the end of the first half of the age of oil. This transition has ushered in a new reality of high oil prices, stagnating oil supplies, and sluggish economies. In this book, a leading authority on energy explores the contributions and continuing legacy of Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrère, the two geologists who modified the terms of the debate about oil. The book provides a unique perspective and state-of-the-art overview of today's energy reality and its enormous economic and social implications. - Covers a topic that eclipses climate change as the most important but least understood challenge for contemporary society - Explores the works of Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrère, the leading authorities in the field of Peak Oil, authors of 'The End of Cheap Oil' (Scientific American, 1998), and founding members of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas - Addresses a broa

The First Half of the Age of Oil: An Exploration of the Work of Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrère (Energy Analysis)

Ramírez-Pascualli, Carlos A.

In this updated edition of a groundbreaking text, concepts such as energy return on investment (EROI) provide powerful insights into the real balance sheets that drive our “petroleum economy.” Hall and Klitgaard explore the relation between energy and the wealth explosion of the 20th century, and the interaction of internal limits to growth found in the investment process and rising inequality with the biophysical limits posed by finite energy resources. The authors focus attention on the failure of markets to recognize or efficiently allocate diminishing resources, the economic consequences of peak oil, the high cost and relatively low EROI of finding and exploiting new oil fields, including the much ballyhooed shale plays and oil sands, and whether alternative energy technologies such as wind and solar power can meet the minimum EROI requirements needed to run society as we know it. For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers. In this “perpetual motion” of interactions between firms that produce and households that consume, little or no accounting is given of the flow of energy and materials from the environment and back again. In the standard economic model, energy and matter are completely recycled in these transactions, and economic activity is seemingly exempt from the Second Law of Thermodynamics. As we enter the second half of the age of oil, when energy supplies and the environmental impacts of energy production and consumption are likely to constrain economic growth, this exemption should be considered illusory at best. This book is an essential read for all scientists and economists who have recognized the urgent need for a more scientific, empirical, and unified approach to economics in an energy-constrained world, and serves as an ideal teaching text for the growing number of courses, such as the authors’ own, on the role of energy in society.

Energy and the Wealth of Nations: An Introduction to Biophysical Economics

Klitgaard, Kent

Reference

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.

Energy Return on Investment: A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics, and Sustainability (Lecture Notes in Energy, 36)

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Estuarine Ecology

Energy and Resource Quality: The Ecology of the Economic Process (Environmental Science and Technology: A Wiley-Interscience Series of Texts and Monographs)

Energy and Resource Quality: The Ecology of the Economic Process

Energy and the Wealth of Nations: Understanding the Biophysical Economy

The Chinese Oil Industry: History and Future (Energy Analysis)

Spain’s Photovoltaic Revolution: The Energy Return on Investment (Energy Analysis)

The First Half of the Age of Oil: An Exploration of the Work of Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrère (Energy Analysis)

Energy and the Wealth of Nations: An Introduction to Biophysical Economics

Energy and the Wealth of Nations: An Introduction to Biophysical Economics

Energy Return on Investment: A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics, and Sustainability (Lecture Notes in Energy, 36)