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| Type: | Journal article |
| Title: | Economics, ecology and entropy: the second law of thermodynamics and the limits to growth |
| Author: | Smith, J. Smith, C. |
| Citation: | Population and Environment, 1996; 17(4):309-321 |
| Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
| Issue Date: | 1996 |
| ISSN: | 0199-0039 1573-7810 |
| Abstract: | The second law of thermodynamics has played an important role in ecological economics as providing a justification for the view that economies have limits to growth. Yet beyond basic textbooks statements of this law, we seldom find informed philosophical examinations of the meaning and metaphysical justification for the second law. In this paper we shall examine some challenges which have been made to the limits to growth (Limitationist) position by those criticizing the scope and application of the second law of thermodynamics and we shall in turn defend Limitationism against these criticisms. © 1996 Human Sciences Press, Inc. |
| DOI: | 10.1007/BF02208231 |
| Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02208231 |
| Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 7 Geography, Environment and Population publications |
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