Competition for land: A sociometabolic perspective

Ecological Economics

Volumn 119, Issue , 2015, Pages 424-431

  Haberl, Helmut ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Food; Human appropriation of net primary; Land use; Land use competition; production; Socioeconomic metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947044417     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.10.002     Document Type: Note

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