A socio‐metabolic transition towards sustainability? Challenges for another Great Transformation

By H. Haberl, Marina Fischer‐Kowalski, F. Krausmann, J. Martínez-Alier, V. Winiwarter. 2011

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Sociology and Political Science

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Sustainability Transitions Research: Transforming Science and Practice for Societal Change (2017, background): “The socio-ecological perspective is applied in different ways, including a focus on metabolism (83), external catalyzing events (84, 85), or the alternation of different dynamic processes (also known as panarchy) (80).”
The Role of In-Use Stocks in the Social Metabolism and in Climate Change Mitigation (2013, neutral): “(Fischer-Kowalski et al., 2011; Fischer-Kowalski, 2011; Haberl et al., 2011; Krausmann, 2011; Krausmann et al., 2008).”
The energy‐extractives nexus and the just transition (2021, background): “ecological pressures exerted by neoliberal globalisation (Haberl et al., 2011).”
Human well‐being and climate change mitigation (2017, background): “Others have emphasized the limits of climate change mitigation proposals arising from the land use required for food production.(101,102) Both Hedenus et al.”
Measuring progress in the degrowth transition to a steady state economy (2012, background): “Haberl et al. (2011) describe two major transitions that have occurred (and are still occurring) in the social metabolism of human societies.”
Ecological macroeconomics: An application to climate change (2013, neutral): “Haberl, Helmut, Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Krausmann, Fridolin, Martinez-Alier, Joan and Verena Winiwarter (2011) “A socio-metabolic transition towards sustainability?”
Decoupling natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth (2011, background): “Thus it is common to calculate metabolic rates, that is resource use per capita, as a fairly robust overall measure of material standard of living (see for example Krausmann et al., 2008; Behrens et al., 2007; Haberl et al., 2009).”
The Material Stock–Flow–Service Nexus: A New Approach for Tackling the Decoupling Conundrum (2017, background): “Raising efficiency may be important, but it is most likely not sufficient to move toward sustainability [19,114].”
In search of lost time: the rise and fall of limits to growth in international sustainability policy (2015, neutral): “Our expanding global economy consumes a growing throughput of material and energy resources that in turn leads to growing pollution and CO2 emissions (Haberl et al. 2009).”
Challenges for Social-Ecological Transformations: Contributions from Social and Political Ecology (2017, background): “, the transformations of natural ecosystems to increase yields; [57], operationalised in the human appropriation of net primary production or HANPP indicator [60], Long-term Socioecological Research [61,62] and Socio-Natural sites [63], and in particular, the concept of metabolic regimes and the tra”
Circles, spirals, pyramids and cubes: why the circular economy cannot work (2018, background): “Major changes in socio-metabolic profiles were characterized by substantial increases in metabolic rates, corresponding, in turn, to substantial increases in entropic output (Fischer-Kowalski and Rotmans 2009; Haberl et al. 2011, 2016).”
The environmental state and the glass ceiling of transformation (2020, background): “Consequently, states today are chargedwith the task of facilitating what is variously called a low-carbon transition, sustainability transition or socio-ecological transformation of society (Foxon 2011, Geels 2011, Haberl et al. 2011).”