On the practical limits to substitution

By Robert U. Ayres. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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The Future of Oil: Geology Versus Technology (2012, background): “The objections include that this assumption is not consistent with the historical facts (Smil (2010))13, with real-world practical limits (Ayres (2007)), or with the laws of thermodynamics, specifically entropy (Reynolds (2002), Ch. 10).”
Fossil fuel depletion and socio-economic scenarios: An integrated approach (2014, background): “…and thermo-dynamical limits in the substitution of inputs in production in the medium and long-term (as stated by Ecological Economics, e.g. (Ayres, 2007; Ehrlich, 1989; Stern, 1997)), the following expression of the energy intensity (equation 2) as proposed by (Schenk and Moll, 2007) is…”
Ecosystem services assessment: A review under an ecological-economic and systems perspective (2014, unknown): “i a a (Ayres, 2007; Pearce et al., 1989).”
Sustainability economics: Where do we stand? (2008, background): “More extended treatments of these issues are dealt with in prior publications (Ayres et al., 2003, 2005; Ayres and Warr, 2005; Warr and Ayres, 2006).”
The Circular Economy at a Crossroads: Technocratic Eco-Modernism or Convivial Technology for Social Revolution? (2020, background): “If we assume an economic system totally based on solar energy (an abundant source of low-entropy energy), completely circular material flows, and thus an indefinite reutilisation of material resources, are in theory possible (Ayres 2007).”
The Global Sociometabolic Transition (2008, background): “Unless we assume unlimited substitutability of resources due to technological change—against which Ayres (2007) has recently argued very convincingly— the industrial sociometabolic regime, by definition, lacks the potential for sustainability.”
Economic Analysis for Ecosystem Service Assessments (2011, background): “However, other resources, such as global oxygen stocks, are effectively non-renewable and non-substitutable (Ayres, 2007).”
Economic de-growth vs. steady-state economy (2010, background): “However there are many practical limitations to Ayres’ technological optimism, some of which were addressed by himself more recently [85,87].”