Social metabolism: A metric for biophysical growth and degrowth

Handbook of Ecological Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 100-138

  Fischer Kowalski, Marina ^a   Haberl, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781783471416.00009     Document Type: Chapter

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