Rethinking productivity: Why has productivity focussed on labour instead of natural resources?

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-36

  Bleischwitz, Raimund ^a  

^a Institute for Ecological Economy Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Material flow analysis; Measurement; Natural resources; Productivity

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCTIVITY;

MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS (MFA);

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; NATURAL RESOURCE; PRODUCTIVITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0035017239     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011106527578     Document Type: Article

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