Analyzing sustainability transitions as a shift between socio-metabolic regimes

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 152-159

  Fischer Kowalski, Marina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Global material and energy flows; Sociometabolic regimes; Sociometabolic transitions

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY FLOW; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 79958006058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22104224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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