Embodied HANPP: Mapping the spatial disconnect between global biomass production and consumption

Ecological Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 328-334

  Erb, Karl Heinz ^a   Krausmann, Fridolin ^a   Lucht, Wolfgang ^b   Haberl, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global environmental change; Land use; Net primary production; Production and consumption patterns; Socioeconomic biomass flows

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LAND USE CHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

EID: 70449510485     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.06.025     Document Type: Article

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