Global Socio-metabolic Transitions

Long Term Socio-Ecological Research: Studies in Society-Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 339-365

  Krausmann, Fridolin ^a   Fischer Kowalski, Marina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Decoupling; Industrialization; Metabolic regimes; Resource use; Social metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012306521     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1177-8_15     Document Type: Chapter

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