From resource extraction to outflows of wastes and emissions: The socioeconomic metabolism of the global economy, 1900–2015

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 52, Issue , 2018, Pages 131-140

  Krausmann, Fridolin ^a   Lauk, Christian ^a   Haas, Willi ^a   Wiedenhofer, Dominik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dematerialization; Great acceleration; In use material stocks; Material flow accounting; Sustainable resource use; Waste and emissions

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ANALYSIS; EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL ECONOMY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING; RESOURCE USE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOLID WASTE; SUSTAINABILITY; WASTE;

EID: 85049906637     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.07.003     Document Type: Article

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