The material stock-flow-service nexus: A new approach for tackling the decoupling conundrum

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Haberl, Helmut ^a   Wiedenhofer, Dominik ^a   Erb, Karl Heinz ^a   Görg, Christoph ^a   Krausmann, Fridolin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Decoupling; Dynamic stock model; Economy wide material flow analysis; In use stocks of materials; Socioecological transformation; Socioeconomic metabolism; Stock flow relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 85022018372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9071049     Document Type: Note

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