Overview
- Provides a solid foundation for investors to understand what is ultimately behind markets
- Presents an accessible but powerful overview of energy as a ubiquitous causative agent in all phenomena across several disciplines
- Offers a synthetic and transdisciplinary perspective for understanding the common drivers of apparently disparate phenomena in nature and society
- Helps you to evaluate claims of “greenness” and sustainability from consumer products to science
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Energy (LNEN, volume 36)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Energy and Investments
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Energy and Biology
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“The book Energy Return on Investment, self-deprecatingly put forth as a nontechnical ‘story,’ succeeds in providing a cohesive and intellectually rigorous theory that transcends economics and biology. …I highly recommend this book to policymakers and the business community to more accurately forecast the future, as well as to engineers and scientists of all disciplines. … Energy Return on Investment is technically relevant and written with accessible language.” (John R. Schramski, BioScience, July, 2018)
“In Energy Return on Investment, systems ecologist Charles A. S. Hall argues that to truly understand most investments, one must view them in terms of energy. … Energy Return on Investmentis a solid introduction to a vital subject, and Hall is uniquely qualified to author it. Hall invented the very term energy return on investment, and he’s done decades of seminal research on the phenomenon that it describes.” (Frank Kaminski, resilience.org, April, 2018)
“In Energy Return on Investment, Dr. Hall has written an approachable and short introduction to how energy flows through and structures our world, ecosystems, and society. … Energy Return on Investment is an excellent primer with which to understand the world around us and make good investment choices for ourselves and the generations to come.” (Jon Freise, Resilience, resilience.org, June, 2017)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Energy Return on Investment
Book Subtitle: A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics, and Sustainability
Authors: Charles A.S. Hall
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Energy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47821-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47820-3Published: 06 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83832-8Published: 05 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47821-0Published: 29 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2195-1284
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 174
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 52 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Thermodynamics, Economic Growth, Climate Change Management and Policy, Ecosystems