Substance flows are a part of both nature and the anthroposphere.
This includes for instance the coupling between the solid Earth and the cryosphere, or the hydrosphere, the anthroposphere and the specific sources of vibration developing there.
Chlorophenols are extensively used in the anthroposphere, and their fates in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and lithosphere and their degradations under natural light of great interests.
Fracking dramatically changes the anthroposphere, which in turn significantly impacts the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere through the significant input or output of water, air, liquid or solid waste disposals, and the complex chemical components in fracking fluids.
The energy flows and conversions in the anthroposphere and the anthropogenic impacts on the ecosphere, as two major aspects of the physical part of industrial ecology, are both subject to the laws of thermodynamics.
After an introduction to human environment systems and industrial ecology in the Anthropocene, this review focuses on the role and applications of thermodynamic analysis in industrial ecology based on a thermodynamic definition of human environment systems at four levels, i.e., the ecosphere (A), the anthroposphere (B), the supply chain (C), and the foreground system (D).
The scale of observation is the cycles in the soil-plant-animal system on or relevant to a field or watershed level as well as inputs from or losses to the anthroposphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere.
Three case studies are End-of-Life products (the anthroposphere) from Switzerland: (i) phosphors in fluorescent lamps, (i) permanent magnets in the drive motors of electric cars and (iii) fibre optic cable.
The range of topics includes agronomic, agroforestry, livestock, pasture, organic agriculture, bioenergy, and fallow systems or system components such as plants and the fertility, chemistry, physics or faunal and micro-biology of soils, as well as system inputs from and losses to the anthroposphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere.
A kinetic sound object becomes an "artificial satellite of Earth" and "inhabited sound art space station"—one that measures and researches the sound swirling inside the anthroposphere (the Earth's atmosphere modified by humans)—in orbitalochka, the newest work by media artist ::vtol::, a.k.a., Dimitry Morozov.
When considering the basis of survival of the anthroposphere, in addition to issues related to energy and the global environment, one task moving forward will be how to construct the advancing elderly society.
