Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gonzague Pillet Title: Water, Wind and Soil: Hidden Keys to The Water Planet Earth and to Economic Macroprocesses Classification-JEL: F0 Pages: 43-52 Volume: Volume 9 Issue: Number 1 Year: 1988 Abstract: This essay tentatively integrates the analysis of macroeconomic processes with that of natural ecological systems via energy balances and calculations. On the one hand, entropy studies concerning ecology and economy by Tsuchida (1976), Tamanoi, Tsuchida & Murota (1984), Murota (1984, 1985, 1987), Tsuchida & Murota (1985), and Kawamiya (1985) have stressed the major importance of the water cycle, wind energy, and the topsoil function as the hidden keys to the earth's open steady state and the renewability of its living systems. Handle: RePEc:aen:journl:1988v09-01-a04 File-URL: http://www.iaee.org/en/publications/ejarticle.aspx?id=1865 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to IAEE members and subscribers.