Malte Faber & Horst Niemes 
Entropy, Environment and Resources [PDF ebook] 
An Essay in Physico-Economics

Long run aspects of environmental protection and of the useof resources areanalyzed within a planning model. To thisend fundamental concepts of thermodynamics are explained ina simple manner. The relationships between entropy, energynecessary for the extraction of a resource and theconcentration of the resource is employed to establish aconnection between the economic systems and the environment.