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Civil and Environmental Engineering) Intermittency and Irreversibility in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System

Investments in abatement technology are often characterised by irreversibility and significant implementation lags, whereas emissions permits can be traded at any time. As such, permit trading systems hardly perfect substitutes. We formally study the flexibility of propose a unified framework to rationalise impact both investment/divestment lags relation price permits. Using option pricing conc...

In a macroscopic (quantum or classical) Hamiltonian system, we prove the second law of thermodynamics in the forms of the minimum work principle and the law of entropy increase, under the assumption that the initial state is described by a general equilibrium distribution. Therefore the second law is a logical necessity once we accept equilibrium statistical mechanics. Note added (December, 200...