LEADER 04678nam 22007095 450 001 9910155299703321 005 20250520235353.0 010 $a9783319478210 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-47821-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000964822 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-47821-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4755396 035 $a(PPN)19745643X 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000964822 100 $a20161201d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEnergy return on investment $ea unifying principle for biology, economics, and sustainability /$fby Charles A.S. Hall 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XII, 174 p. 67 illus., 52 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aLecture Notes in Energy,$x2195-1284 ;$v36 311 08$a3-319-47820-6 311 08$a3-319-47821-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEnergy as the master resource -- The ecological theatre and the evolutionary play -- Energy Return on Investment as master driver -- Calculating Energy costs and gains in plant and animal populations -- Calculating Energy costs and gains in human societies -- Maximum Power -- The future in a lower EROI world. 330 $aThis authoritative but highly accessible book presents the reader with a powerful framework for understanding the critical role of the energy return on investment (EROI) in the survival and well-being of individuals, ecosystems, businesses, economies and nations. Growth and development are fundamental and ubiquitous processes at all scales, from individuals to food crops to national economies. While we are all familiar with the concepts of economic growth and living standards as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), we often take for granted the energy use that underpins GDP and our expectations for year-on-year growth. In this book, you will learn how these measures of ?progress? are completely dependent on the balance that can be achieved between energy costs (inputs) and gains. Nothing is made or moved without an energy surplus, and it is the EROI of available energy sources more than any other single factor that determines the shape of civilization. Nearly all politics and economics assume that policy and market forces are the levers upon which future outcomes will hinge. However, this book presents many examples of historical and current events that can be explained much more clearly from an energetic perspective. In addition, a future scenario is developed that gives a central place to EROI in assessing the potential of governmental and private initiatives to substitute so-called renewable energy sources for diminishing stocks of fossil fuels. When cheap fossil fuels are no longer available in the abundance needed to mask economic problems and power business as usual, it will be EROI more than the plethora of ?green? technologies that creates the boundary conditions for a sustainable future. 410 0$aLecture Notes in Energy,$x2195-1284 ;$v36 606 $aEnergy policy 606 $aEnergy policy 606 $aThermodynamics 606 $aEconomic development 606 $aClimatic changes 606 $aBiotic communities 606 $aEnergy Policy, Economics and Management$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/112000 606 $aThermodynamics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P21050 606 $aEconomic Growth$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W44000 606 $aClimate Change Management and Policy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/314000 606 $aEcosystems$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L1904X 615 0$aEnergy policy. 615 0$aEnergy policy. 615 0$aThermodynamics. 615 0$aEconomic development. 615 0$aClimatic changes. 615 0$aBiotic communities. 615 14$aEnergy Policy, Economics and Management. 615 24$aThermodynamics. 615 24$aEconomic Growth. 615 24$aClimate Change Management and Policy. 615 24$aEcosystems. 676 $a333.79 700 $aHall$b Charles A. S.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$00 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155299703321 996 $aEnergy return on investment$94379623 997 $aUNINA