What Should Be Held Steady in a Steady-State Economy?: Interpreting Daly's Definition at the National Level

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 552-563

  O'Neill, Daniel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Degrowth; Industrial ecology; Material flow accounting; Social metabolism; Steady state economy; Throughput

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; COMMERCE; ECOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; THROUGHPUT;

DEGROWTH; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; MATERIAL FLOW ACCOUNTINGS; SOCIAL METABOLISMS; STEADY STATE;

ECONOMICS;

BIOINDICATOR; BIOPHYSICS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; NATURAL CAPITAL; NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE; RESOURCE USE; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84942249603     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: 15309290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12224     Document Type: Article

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