The fossil-fuel-powered carbon sink: Carbon flows and austria's energetic metabolism in a long-term perspective

Socioecological Transitions and Global Change: Trajectories of Social Metabolism and Land Use

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 60-82

  Erb, Karl heinz ^a   Haberl, Helmut ^a   Krausmann, Fridolin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

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