Energy issues have become increasingly important for our world. It could be plausibly argued that energy will shortly be the single most important problem for industrialized countries, on the same footing as food, water and overpopulation, for the world as a whole. On a timescale of decades, our world may face an inevitable exhaustion of nonrenewable energy supplies. Even at the present time, e...

In a simple agent-based model of a small oligopoly nonrenewable natural resource model, the agents, communicating solely through the market price, sometimes exhibit collusion-like behavior, sometimes Cournot-like behavior. The collusion-like behavior is shown to arise when di erences between the agents are small. Conversely, the Cournot-like behavior is shown to result from di erences in produc...

Recent events, news articles in the popular press, and research outside the field of economics have raised alarming questions about the sufficiency of global freshwater supplies and the potentially devastating impacts of current and future water shortages. For example, the 2008 Beijing Olympics drew attention to the problems of pollution and water shortages in China, where massive infrastructur...

The increasing demand for eco-friendly, sustainable, biodegradable natural fiber reinforced composites is a direct result of an increase in environmental awareness and shift away from traditional material sources that are favour which derived renewable green resources. Natural have garnered significant interest due to their abundance. Among other advantages, inexpensive, biodegradable, renewabl...

The present conflict between the people of Israel and the people of Palestine has been going on for the last 125 years. The source of the quarrel has deep historical roots and has been attributed to differences in religious beliefs and customs, the conflict of the dreams and destinies that the two peoples hold for a single land, and to a self-perpetuating cycle of vengeance for violent acts, in...

Tomato is among the most commercialised fruits due to its high nutritional value and health-promoting compounds. However, tomatoes have a short shelf life plastic packaging materials are used mitigate perishability. Nevertheless, exhaustion of nonrenewable natural resources produce plastics demand for eco-friendly entailed search other alternatives. Edible coatings emerged as an effective envir...

This paper re-examines the Hotelling model of optimal nonrenewable resource extraction in light of stock effects and technological progress. We assume functional forms for cost and demand so that the solution to the Hotelling problem is a steady-state consistent with the empirical observation that the growth rates of market prices have remained zero over a long period of time. We use data on 14...

Abstract Large amounts of nonrenewable resources are depleted by the construction industry in addition to generation million tons mineral waste and carbon dioxide gas every year. For sake a more sustainable consumption pattern building materials, as well for reducing flux landfills, use recycled materials wastes should be researched motivated. In this sense, textile (TW) nonwoven fabric from re...