| Preface | 5 |
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| Contents | 7 |
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| 1 Introduction | 10 |
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| Part I The Water Use Model | 13 |
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| 2 Conceptual Foundations: Thermodynamics and Capital Theory | 14 |
| 2.1 Thermodynamics and Its Equivalency to Information Theory | 14 |
| 2.1.1 Entropy, Temperature and Heat | 15 |
| 2.1.2 Entropy, Probability, and Information | 15 |
| 2.1.3 Relations Between Work and Exergy | 16 |
| 2.1.4 Exergy Far from the Thermodynamic Equilibrium | 18 |
| 2.1.5 Relations Between Exergy and Information | 19 |
| 2.1.6 Thermodynamics of Economic Transformation Processes | 20 |
| 2.2 The Concept of Capital Theory | 23 |
| 2.2.1 Neo-Austrian Capital Theory as Example | 23 |
| 2.2.2 Capital Theory and Its Natural Sciences Consistency | 27 |
| 3 General Design of Dynamic Models for Water Uses | 29 |
| 3.1 Model Structure and Economic Activities | 29 |
| 3.2 Characteristics of Production Activities | 32 |
| 3.2.1 Criteria for the Extraction and Use of Raw Materials | 32 |
| 3.2.2 Characteristics of Producing and Using Energy and Water | 37 |
| 3.2.3 Characteristics of Wastewater Treatment Activities | 41 |
| 3.3 Technological Progress and Human Labour Inputs | 42 |
| 4 Specifications for Constructing the Water Use Model | 45 |
| 4.1 Structure and Characteristics of the Water Use Model | 45 |
| 4.2 Process Coefficients for the Water Use Model | 52 |
| 4.2.1 Process Coefficients for the Production Sector | 52 |
| 4.2.1.1 The Coefficients for the Extraction Processes for the Raw Material | 53 |
| 4.2.1.2 The Coefficients for Producing Energy | 57 |
| 4.2.1.3 Summary of the Process Coefficients for the Production Sector | 58 |
| 4.2.2 Process Coefficients for the Reproduction Sector | 59 |
| 4.2.3 The Wastewater Treatment Coefficients | 61 |
| 5 Constraints of the Wat
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