Biophysical economics

We calculated the total quantity of energy required to produce an ESF graduate based on the energy costs associated with on and off campus activities in 2001. We identified and analyzed four components of the ESF energy budget: direct on-site energy; indirect energy in supplies, equipment, and new construction; energy in transportation of students, faculty, and staff, including daily commute and field trips/research; and maintenance metabolism, including energy use in food consumption, residence utilities, and student spending. We determined the energy cost per student in 2001 and multiplied this annual cost by the average time it takes to earn an ESF diploma to generate the energy cost per graduate. Direct energy on-site use was obtained through the ESF Physical Plant. Indirect energy, energy in transportation, and energy for maintenance metabolism was calculated using a campus wide survey and estimated energy intensities of specific goods and services. The average ESF graduate uses 1.15 TJ in pursuit of their degree. Energy analyses can be useful tools to understand total facility energy costs and can also serve in developing energy conservation initiatives.

Published in: Environmental study from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 2003
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The realization that the conceptual base for much of conventional economics is quite flimsy
is no longer news to either those who follow events within the field or to many interested
outsiders in the natural sciences. For an easy example, since 1998 a surprisingly large
number of Nobel Laureates in economics (Joseph Stiglitz, George Akerlof, Daniel
Kahneman, Robert Aumann, Thomas Schelling, and Amartya Sen) were people whose
worked challenged, in various very fundamental ways, the basic existing paradigm of
conventional neoclassical economics...

Published in: International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research Vol. 1, No. 1, 2006
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Published in: Journal of Energy Resources Technolnology, June 2004, Volume 126, Issue 2
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Published in: ‘Economics of industrial ecology’. (Eds J. C. J. M. van den Bergh and M. A. Janssen.) pp. 165–194. (MIT Press: Cambridge.)
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