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Three fundamental resources — energy, material and information — are necessary for the creation, organisation and preservation of ordered structures. A human society for example is an ordered structure which functions by using information and by transforming and exchanging resources, goods and services. Ordered structures are systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium. The tools and concepts of thermodynamics are used to model the creation of useful energy in the early Universe, the role of information in consumption behaviour and the optimal development of an economy under resource constraint.
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Islam, S. (1986). Creation, Organisation and Preservation of Dissipative Structures. In: Kilmister, C.W. (eds) Disequilibrium and Self-Organisation. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4718-4_20
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