The 3rd African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics (ACP2023)

Session

General

25 Sept 2023, 09:00

Regency Room (Protea Hotel King George)

Conveners

General

• Mounia Laassiri (University of Helsinki)
• Ketevi Adikle Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

124. The interactions of Physics, Environmental, and Developmental Issues: Taking complexity Seriously

George Ellis (University of Cape Town)

25/09/2023, 09:00

Community Engagements

Invited Talk

Physics underlies all that emerges, including ecosystems and societies, and some issues to do with energy usage and global warming have direct relations to physics, as pointed out by Vaclav Smil. However it is not true that one can take simple physics concepts such as some form of thermodynamics or network theory and make policy recommendations on this basis alone. The...