Front Cover -- Climate Change and Circular Economics -- Climate Change and Circular Economics: Emerging Technologies and Materials in Thermal EngineeringHuman Society as a Closed Th ... -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the author -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments and credits -- One -- Human society and nature interaction -- 1.1 Society as a dissipative open system -- 1.2 Closing processes in self-organizing cycles -- 1.3 Evolution of human society toward a closed system -- 1.4 Model evolution 3 -- 1.5 Specific results -- 1.5.1 Use of capital
1.6 Is an inclusive society possible? -- References -- Further reading -- Two -- Irreversible thermodynamics view of the need for a circular economy -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Irreversible thermodynamics approach -- 2.3 Circular economy -- 2.4 Estimating temperature increases and crises -- 2.5 Turning waste into assets-resource management policy and new technologies -- Appendix 2.1 -- References -- Three -- Resource materials and recycling technologies -- 3.1 The main elements of the raw materials initiative -- 3.2 Improving recycling rates -- 3.3 Japan and rare earths in permanent magnets
3.4 Managing resources -- 3.4.1 Charting America's import reliance on key minerals -- 3.4.2 US import reliance by mineral -- 3.5 China's gallium and germanium restrictions -- 3.6 Rebirth of nuclear and the needed resources -- 3.7 Technological resources -- 3.7.1 Waste heat recovery system characteristics -- 3.7.1.1 Issues with implementing action -- 3.7.1.2 Climate change impact -- 3.7.1.3 Conditions for emissions mitigation -- 3.7.1.4 Resources -- 3.7.2 End-use energy efficiency and demand side management actions -- 3.7.3 Promoting residential demand-side management programs
