How can economics contribute to environmental and social sustainability? The significance of systems theory and the embedded economy

Autor: Keith R. Skene

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Sustainability, Vol 3 (2022)

Concerns relating to resource extraction, manufacturing, waste in our supply chains, along with increasing consumption and with their consequences for the planet, have, to a greater or lesser extent, begun to impact the ideological approach and the d

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Life’s a Gas: A Thermodynamic Theory of Biological Evolution

Autor: Keith R. Skene

Publikováno v: Entropy, Vol 17, Iss 8, Pp 5522-5548 (2015)

This paper outlines a thermodynamic theory of biological evolution. Beginning with a brief summary of the parallel histories of the modern evolutionary synthesis and thermodynamics, we use four physical laws and processes (the first and second laws o

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Sustainability policy and practice: Is Nature an appropriate mentor?

Autor: Keith R. Skene

Publikováno v: Environment, Development and Sustainability. 23:18167-18185

Growing concern relating to the damage done to the Earth system by human activity has led to a proliferation of thinking in terms of ameliorating this impact. Many schools of thought, focused on economic, social and environmental sustainability, have

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01432-x

Contributors

Autor: Sami G. Al-Ghamdi, Ibtisam Sulaiman Alhosni, Omar Amoudi, Fenna Blomsma, Geraldine Brennan, Anton Brummelhuis, Nicola Callaghan, Joana Costa, Marco Cucchi, Dimo Dimov, Azadeh Dindarian, Karine Van Doorsselaer, Hilde Engels, K.I. Evangelinos, M.A. Fernández López, Anna Maria Ferrari, Karen Fortuin, Robin Foster, G. Fountoulakis, Tânia Freitas, Victor Fukumoto, Fernando E. García-Muiña, Darya Gerasimenko, Helena I. Gomes, João Pedro Moreira Gonçalves, Emma Goosey, Rafael Hernández López, Alistair Ho, Holger Hoppe, Beijia Huang, M. Hughes, Susan L. Hull, R. Husgafvel, Konstantinos Iatridis, Jan Jonker, René Kemp, A. Kipritsis, Nermin Kişi, G. Lanaras-Mamounis, L. Linkosalmi, Cembalo Luigi, Warren E. Mabee, Monica Mihaela Maer-Matei, Sergey Makaryan, Mehzabeen Mannan, Thomas Marinelli, Borrello Massimiliano, Deepak John Mathew, William M. Mayes, Erica Mazerolle-Castillo, M. Sonia Medina-Salgado, O. Mikroni, Eva Militaru, Alberto Fernandez Minguela, Irina Mkrtchyan, Cristina Mocanu, Ioannis E. Nikolaou, Piotr Nowakowski, Satoshi Ohnishi, Juyeon Park, Seigo Robinson, Indranil Saha, D. Sakaguchi, Daniel Rolph Schneider, Anastasios Sepetis, Davide Settembre-Blundo, Manuela Castro Silva, Keith R. Skene, Alexandros I. Stefanakis, Krzysztof Szwarc, Mike Tennant, Tihomir Tomić, Thomas A. Tsalis, Alisha Tuladhar, Serdar Türkeli, Elena Turrado Domínguez, Alexandre Meira de Vasconcelos, Konstantinos I. Vatalis, P. Vouros, Mariusz Wala, K.S. Winans, Ana Maria Zamfir

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https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-819817-9.09991-9

Why ecosystem services should be counterbalanced by nature’s thermodynamic costs

Autor: Josef Seják, Jan Pokorný, Karl Seeley, Keith R. Skene

Publikováno v: Ecosystem Services. 57:101469

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101469