Thermodynamics for Sustainable Management of Natural Resources

1. Introduction
Wojciech Stanek

Part I. Fundamentals

2. Resources. Production. Depletion
Wojciech Stanek, Alicia Valero, Guiomar Calvo, Lucyna Czarnowska

3. Fundamentals of Exergy Analysis
Wojciech Stanek, Jan Szargut, Sergio Usón

4. “Input-Output” Approach to Energy Production Systems
Andrzej Ziębik

5. Cumulative Calculus and Life Cycle Evaluation
Wojciech Stanek, Lucyna Czarnowska, Paweł Gładysz

6. Thermodynamic Methods to Evaluate Resources
Wojciech Stanek, Alicia Valero, Antonio Valero, Javier Uche, Guiomar Calvo

7. Theory of Exergy Cost and Thermo-ecological Cost
Antonio Valero, Sergio Usón, César Torres, Wojciech Stanek

8. The Thermodynamic Rarity Concept for the Evaluation of Mineral Resources
Antonio Valero, Alicia Valero, Adriana Domínguez

9. Externalities Burdening Production Processes and Systems
Lucyna Czarnowska

Part II. Applications

10. Computable Examples of the Application of “Input-Output” Models of Energy Production Systems
Andrzej Ziębik, Paweł Gładysz

11. Application of Thermo-ecological Cost (TEC) as Sustainability Measure for Useful Products
Wojciech Stanek, Jan Szargut, Lucyna Czarnowska

12. Integrating the Thermo-ecological and Exergy Replacement Costs to Assess Mineral Processing
Adriana Domínguez, Alicia Valero, Wojciech Stanek

13. Application of Thermo-economic Analysis (TEA) to Industrial Ecology (IE)
Sergio Usón, Wojciech Stanek

14. Assessment of Water Resources by Exergy Cost
Javier Uche, Amaya Martínez, Beatriz Carrasquer

15. Exergo-ecological Assessment of Multi-generation Energy Systems
Wojciech Stanek, Wiesław Gazda, Wojciech Kostowski, Sergio Usón

16. Thermo-ecological Evaluation of Advanced Coal-Fired Power Technologies
Paweł Gładysz, Andrzej Ziębik

17. Cumulative Green-House Gasses (GHG) Emissions as Total Measure of Global Warming Potential
Ryszard Białecki, Wojciech Stanek

18. Thermo-ecological System Analysis as a Tool Supporting the Analysis of the National Energy and Environmental Policy
Andrzej Ziębik, Wojciech Stanek, Paweł Gładysz

Keywords: Energy, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Environmental Economics, Hydrology/Water Resources