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

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

Benjamin Leiva

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

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

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

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

Victor Court

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

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

Devin Moeller and David Murphy

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

Blair Fix

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

Harald Ulrik Sverdrup and Anna Hulda Olafsdottir

Volume 4, issue 1, 2019

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

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

Blair Fix

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Carlos Castro and Iñigo Capellán-Pérez

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Dittmar

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

Ugo Bardi and Sgouris Sgouridis

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

Graham Palmer and Joshua Floyd

Volume 2, issue 3, 2017

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

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

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

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

Graham Palmer

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

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

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

Aude Illig and Ian Schindler

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

Volume 1, issue 2, 2016

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

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

Ugo Bardi

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

James W. Murray

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

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

Ugo Bardi

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

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

Volume 1, issue 1, 2016

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

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

Devin Moeller and David Murphy

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

Michael Dittmar

Editorial pp. 1-2

Ugo Bardi, Gaël Giraud and Charles Hall

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

Ugo Bardi