Modern approaches in ecology and nature management. The thermodynamic approach
Subtitle: The thermodynamic approach
Publisher: St.-Petersburg State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: St.-Petersburg, Russia
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 126
Table of contents: title: Table of contents; title: Some Remarks about theoretical background of ecology and geoecology	3; title: Ecology and the prehistory of thermodynamics	 9; title: Basic concepts of thermodynamics and their applications	20; title: The direction of processes and the Carnot cycle	30; title: The second law of thermodynamics 	38; title: Application of thermodynamics for the evaluation of the energy use efficiency	50; title: Thermodynamic potentials. Exergy	60; title: Energy fluxes and exergy losses in the environment. Thermal pollution of the biosphere	66; title: The migration and accumulation of pollutants in the environment 	88; title: The Le Chatelier Principle. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics 	93; title: The thermodynamics of processes far from equilibrium Bifurcations and fluctuations; title: 101; title: Self-organization in nature	108; title: The concept of synergetics	113; title: Problems of evolution	115; title: Concluding remarks	119; title: Test questions	122; title: Recommended literature	125; title: Table of contents 	126