Energy Analysis: A New Public Policy Tool

Gilliland, Martha W.

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“…Life Cycle Costing (LCC) assesses the costs faced before, during and after the manufacturing of a product. For example, even when we think we are paying for a gold ring, we are actually paying for the inputs required in order to acquire the gold mine, extract the mineral, refine it, design and manufacture the ring, advertise and sell the ring, and dispose of the waste generated over the entire production chain, even if we do not pay nature for generating the mineral resource [39]. LCC can be run in parallel to LCA with the aim of understanding in which step of the production process costs increase and why, and how these costs can be decreased through better process design.…”

Section: Life Cycle Costingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circular Economy and the Transition to a Sustainable Society: Integrated Assessment Methods for a New Paradigm

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The circular economy concept has recently gained prominence in political debate and corporate discourse around the world as a pathway towards sustainability. The academic debate is characterised by several and sometimes very contrasting definitions of the concept. We claim here that the issue is not finding silver-bullet solutions that will simultaneously support population growth, increasing affluence and environmental resource regeneration. We argue that a clearer definition is needed for the circular economy concept, in terms of strategies, objectives, future states and stakeholders’ needs. Also, assessment methods need to be developed for keeping track of the transition towards a circular economy. Within this context, this paper establishes the need for a multi-stakeholder, multi-dimensional and multi-criteria approach for the evaluation of the transition towards a circular economy across different time and spatial scales, as well as multiple sustainability dimensions.

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Section: Life Cycle Costingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circular Economy and the Transition to a Sustainable Society: Integrated Assessment Methods for a New Paradigm

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“…The same principle could be applied to the economy, as Cai et al (2006) used such patterns and processes of ecosystem development to design the sustainable production and consumption of energy. In fact, as an extension of thermodynamics, Odum suggested an additional requisite concept guiding the rate at which energy transformation processes occur in natural systems (Gilliland, 1978). This was in response to Lotka’s (1922) earlier work regarding the insufficiency of the first two fundamental laws of thermodynamics to explain the set of events, rather than bounding the limits of possible states; that is, thermodynamics only explained what could not happen, instead of explicitly guiding what will happen.…”

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“…An economic system, be it a household, firm, or city, under these conditions would act the same way if it were to be modeled after such ecologically resilient processes. Much like how free-market systems across economy-wide processes pick and reward efficient actors, multilevel systems (goods, firms, cities, or nations) that maximize power are selected for survival under competition, whereas those that do not are selected against and eventually eliminated (Gilliland, 1978). Actors such as individuals, households, and firms could be considered organisms along with nature, beyond merely being conceptualized as economic agents in, yet independent of, nature.…”

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“Nature Cannot Be Fooled”: A Dual-Equilibrium Simulation of Climate Change

Sunny

2020

Organization & Environment

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Although organizational scholars and social scientists have recently called for the integration of the natural environment into management theories, natural scientists have long espoused integrative frameworks. Gottfried Leibniz, the founder of differential calculus, sought integration long before the industrial revolution and Ludwig Boltzmann, the pioneer of statistical mechanics, before the oil boom. Alfred Lotka formalized this notion long before the financial crisis of 1933, while Howard Odum extended it before the oil crisis of 1973. In this essay, and accompanying simulation, I summarize and visualize how the laws of thermodynamics are independently insufficient yet jointly necessary alongside market economics to address the pressing problem of global climate change.

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“…"Second law efficiency" is a completely different parameter, which takes into account the respective thermodynamic qualities of the input and output energies, related to their temperatures. See, for example, (Gilliland 1978;Wikipedia 2010). Considered as a thermodynamic engine, as it actually is, a nuclear reactor is an external combustion engine and could never become an internal combustion engine.…”

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The Globalization of Knowledge in History

Renn

2020

The Evolution of Knowledge

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This volume presents results of an interdisciplinary research project on the globalization of knowledge. The project is centered at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. It was launched in 2007 at the 97 th Dahlem Workshop on Globalization of Knowledge and its Consequences, a Dahlem Conference hosted by the Free University Berlin and supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The Dahlem Conferences, with their unique mode of scholarly interaction, have played a key role in fostering an interdisciplinary cooperation that covers a vast array of disciplines, cultures and historical periods. I am grateful to Katharina Ochse, as well as to my colleagues from the Advisory Board of the Dahlem Conferences, for initiating us into the procedures of this workshop model. The numerous documents, papers, commentaries, reviews and discussion statements that have been produced in the process have all turned out to be essential in producing this volume.The project is part of the research program of a historical epistemology whose aim is to contribute also to the reflexivity of present science and its institutions. It pursues a comparative history of knowledge in which present processes of globalization are conceived as the outcome of historical developments and their interactions. The four research foci of the project have been chosen such that theoretical claims can be validated with reference to outstanding historical phases in which knowledge production, transmission and transformation were critical for advancing processes of intercultural exchange. The theoretical framework developed in the course of the project comprises a core set of concepts which should be extended and revised in the course of further research.The scholarly network, established in 2007, has since been significantly expanded. The participating scholars have collaborated in a variety of meetings and exchanges dedicated to the production of this working group volume. In addition to the papers originally submitted at the Dahlem Conference, a number of invited contributions have been integrated. All contributions have been peer-reviewed and also partly revised by members of an internal board, which met on several occasions to discuss the overall results of the cooperation and their presentation in the introductory survey chapters to each of the four parts of this volume. The internal board comprised

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Energy Analysis: A New Public Policy Tool

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Circular Economy and the Transition to a Sustainable Society: Integrated Assessment Methods for a New Paradigm

Circular Economy and the Transition to a Sustainable Society: Integrated Assessment Methods for a New Paradigm

“Nature Cannot Be Fooled”: A Dual-Equilibrium Simulation of Climate Change

The Globalization of Knowledge in History

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