Biophysical Economics and Resource Quality

2016 - 2025

Current editor(s): C.A.S. Hall and U. Bardi

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Volume 4, issue 4, 2019

Why Do So Many Economists Underplay the Psychological and Biophysical Aspects of Life on Earth? pp. 1-10

Michael Jefferson

When is EROI Not EROI? pp. 1-4

Michael Carbajales-Dale

Volume 4, issue 3, 2019

Correction to: Declining Country‑Level Food Self‑Sufficiency Suggests Future Food Insecurities pp. 1-2

John R. Schramski, C. Brock Woodson, Garrett Steck, Dylan Munn and James H. Brown

Geo-cultural Time: Advancing Human Societal Complexity Within Worldwide Constraint Bottlenecks—A Chronological/Helical Approach to Understanding Human–Planetary Interactions pp. 1-19

Joel D. Gunn, John W. Day, William J. Folan and Matthew Moerschbaecher

Why Are Prices Proportional to Embodied Energies? pp. 1-16

Benjamin Leiva

An Estimation of Different Minimum Exergy Return Ratios Required for Society pp. 1-13

Victor Court

A Comparison Between the Monetary, Resource and Energy Costs of the Conventional Industrial Supply Path and the “Simpler Way” Path for the Supply of Eggs pp. 1-7

T. Trainer, A. Malik and M. Lenzen

Declining Country-Level Food Self-Sufficiency Suggests Future Food Insecurities pp. 1-9

John R. Schramski, C. Brock Woodson, Garrett Steck, Dylan Munn and James H. Brown

Volume 4, issue 2, 2019

Assessing the Long-Term Global Sustainability of the Production and Supply for Stainless Steel pp. 1-29

Harald Ulrik Sverdrup and Anna Hulda Olafsdottir

Dematerialization Through Services: Evaluating the Evidence pp. 1-17

Blair Fix

Comments on Energy Return on Investment (EROI): Reconciling Boundary and Methodological Issues pp. 1-3

Devin Moeller and David Murphy

Volume 4, issue 1, 2019

Toward a General Theory of Societal Collapse: A Biophysical Examination of Tainter’s Model of the Diminishing Returns of Complexity pp. 1-9

Ugo Bardi, Sara Falsini and Ilaria Perissi

The Central Role of Energy in the Urban Transition: Global Challenges for Sustainability pp. 1-13

Joseph R. Burger, James H. Brown, John W. Day, Tatiana P. Flanagan and Eric D. Roy

Prioritization of Bioethanol Production Systems from Agricultural and Waste Agricultural Biomass Using Multi-criteria Decision Making pp. 1-16

Sahar Safarian, Sorena Sattari, Runar Unnthorsson and Zeinab Hamidzadeh

The Aggregation Problem: Implications for Ecological and Biophysical Economics pp. 1-15

Blair Fix

Techno-economical and Experimental Analysis of Biodiesel Production from Used Cooking Oil pp. 1-6

Sumitkumar Joshi, Pradipkumar Hadiya, Manan Shah and Anirbid Sircar

Volume 3, issue 4, 2018

A New Approach to Calculating the “Corporate” EROI pp. 1-28

Luciano Celi, Claudio Della Volpe, Luca Pardi and Stefano Siboni

Volume 3, issue 3, 2018

Concentrated Solar Power: Actual Performance and Foreseeable Future in High Penetration Scenarios of Renewable Energies pp. 1-20

Carlos Castro and Iñigo Capellán-Pérez

A System Dynamics Assessment of the Supply of Molybdenum and Rhenium Used for Super-alloys and Specialty Steels, Using the WORLD6 Model pp. 1-43

Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Anna Hulda Olafsdottir, Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir and Deniz Koca

Energy Decline and Authoritarianism pp. 1-11

Richard Heinberg and Timothy Crownshaw

Optimal Operation of Run of River Small Hydro Power Plant pp. 1-11

Vineet Kumar Singh and S. K. Singal

Is Green Growth Possible in Vietnam? The Case of Marine Capture Fisheries pp. 1-10

Thanh Nguyen, Manh Hung Nguyen and Quang Van

Unravelling Land-Use Change Mechanisms at Global and Regional Scales pp. 1-14

T. Brunelle, P. Dumas, W. Ben Aoun and Benoit Gabrielle

Energy Capture, Technological Change, and Economic Growth: An Evolutionary Perspective pp. 1-27

Victor Court

Modelling Global Mining, Secondary Extraction, Supply, Stocks-in-Society, Recycling, Market Price and Resources, Using the WORLD6 Model; Tin pp. 1-17

Anna Hulda Olafsdottir and Harald Ulrik Sverdrup

Volume 3, issue 2, 2018

Sustainability Assessment of Biodiesel Supply Chain from Various Biomasses and Conversion Technologies pp. 1-15

Sahar Safarian, Sorena Sattari and Zeinab Hamidzadeh

A System Dynamics Model Assessment of the Supply of Niobium and Tantalum Using the WORLD6 Model pp. 1-35

Harald Ulrik Sverdrup and Anna Hulda Olafsdottir

Volume 3, issue 1, 2018

Matter Matters: Reconsidering the (De)materialization of a Hundred Years of Growth pp. 1-10

Kostas Bithas and Panos Kalimeris

Human-Powered Electricity Generation as a Renewable Resource pp. 1-10

Michael Carbajales-Dale and Benjamin Douglass

A Conceptual Model of the Relationship Among World Economy and Climate Indicators pp. 1-15

Boris M. Dolgonosov

The Energy Pillars of Society: Perverse Interactions of Human Resource Use, the Economy, and Environmental Degradation pp. 1-16

John W. Day, Christopher F. D’Elia, Adrian R. H. Wiegman, Jeffrey S. Rutherford, Charles A. S. Hall, Robert R. Lane and David E. Dismukes

Volume 2, issue 4, 2017

Comparative Farm-Gate Life Cycle Assessment of Oilseed Feedstocks in the Northern Great Plains pp. 1-16

Devin Moeller, Heidi L. Sieverding and James J. Stone

In Support of a Physics-Based Energy Transition Planning: Sowing Our Future Energy Needs pp. 1-5

Ugo Bardi and Sgouris Sgouridis

A Regional Oil Extraction and Consumption Model. Part II: Predicting the Declines in Regional Oil Consumption pp. 1-19

Michael Dittmar

An Exploration of Divergence in EPBT and EROI for Solar Photovoltaics pp. 1-20

Graham Palmer and Joshua Floyd

Volume 2, issue 3, 2017

Demand for Indoor Air Pollution Abatement Interventions pp. 1-19

Helen Hoka Osiolo and Peter Kimuyu

Economic Growth in the USA and Germany 1960–2013: The Underestimated Role of Energy pp. 1-23

Dietmar Lindenberger, Florian Weiser, Tobias Winkler and Reiner Kümmel

Modelling Global Wolfram Mining, Secondary Extraction, Supply, Stocks-in-Society, Recycling, Market Price and Resources, Using the WORLD6 System Dynamics Model pp. 1-17

Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Anna Hulda Olafsdottir and Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir

Resource Criticality in Modern Economies: Agent-Based Model Demonstrates Vulnerabilities from Technological Interdependence pp. 1-22

John Sherwood, Anthony Ditta, Becky Haney, Loren Haarsma and Michael Carbajales-Dale

Volume 2, issue 2, 2017

A Framework for Incorporating EROI into Electrical Storage pp. 1-19

Graham Palmer

A Simple System Dynamics Model for the Global Production Rate of Sand, Gravel, Crushed Rock and Stone, Market Prices and Long-Term Supply Embedded into the WORLD6 Model pp. 1-20

Harald U. Sverdrup, Deniz Koca and Peter Schlyter

Energetic Implications of a Post-industrial Information Economy: The Case Study of Australia pp. 1-9

Graham Palmer

Comment on Article “Net Energy Analysis of Gas Production from the Marcellus Shale” by Devin Moeller and David Murphy pp. 1-1

Michael Aucott

Volume 2, issue 1, 2017

How Does Energy Resource Depletion Affect Prosperity? Mathematics of a Minimum Energy Return on Investment (EROI) pp. 1-12

Adam R. Brandt

Energy Return on Investment for Aquaponics: Case Studies from Iceland and Spain pp. 1-12

Reynir Smari Atlason, Ragnar Ingi Danner, Runar Unnthorsson, Gudmundur Valur Oddsson, Fernando Sustaeta and Ragnheidur Thorarinsdottir

Integrated Modelling of the Global Cobalt Extraction, Supply, Price and Depletion of Extractable Resources Using the WORLD6 Model pp. 1-29

Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir and Deniz Koca

Oil Extraction, Economic Growth, and Oil Price Dynamics pp. 1-17

Aude Illig and Ian Schindler

Volume 1, issue 2, 2016

Utility-Scale Solar PV in South Carolina: Analysis of Suitable Lands and Geographical Potential pp. 1-15

Amanda Farthing, Michael Carbajales-Dale, Scott Mason, Patricia Carbajales-Dale and Palak Matta

Limitations of Oil Production to the IPCC Scenarios: The New Realities of US and Global Oil Production pp. 1-13

James W. Murray

The Ore Grade and Depth Influence on Copper Energy Inputs pp. 1-16

R. H. E. M. Koppelaar and H. Koppelaar

Jay Wright Forrester (1918–2016): His Contribution to the Concept of Overshoot in Socioeconomic Systems pp. 1-3

Ugo Bardi

Erratum to: Jay Wright Forrester (1918–2016): His Contribution to the Concept of Overshoot in Socioeconomic Systems pp. 1-1

Ugo Bardi

Information Theory to Assess Relations Between Energy and Structure of the U.S. Economy Over Time pp. 1-33

Carey W. King

The Farm as a Thermodynamic System: Implications of the Maximum Power Principle pp. 1-14

Carl F. Jordan

Volume 1, issue 1, 2016

Editorial pp. 1-2

Ugo Bardi, Gaël Giraud and Charles Hall

Regional Oil Extraction and Consumption: A Simple Production Model for the Next 35 years Part I pp. 1-19

Michael Dittmar

What Future for the Anthropocene? A Biophysical Interpretation pp. 1-7

Ugo Bardi

Net Energy Analysis of Gas Production from the Marcellus Shale pp. 1-13

Devin Moeller and David Murphy

Population, Resources, and the Faith-Based Economy: the Situation in 2016 pp. 1-9

Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich

Mineral Resource Depletion: A Coming Age of Stockpiling? pp. 1-9

Ugo Bardi, Rolf Jakobi and Hiroshan Hettiarachchi

A Systematic Approach to Explorative Scenario Analysis in Emergy Assessment with Emphasis on Resilience pp. 1-11

Andreas Kamp and Hanne Østergård