The Metabolic Pattern of Societies: Where Economists Fall Short

By Mario Giampietro, K. Mayumi, Alevgul H. Sorman. 2011

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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1. Mario Giampietro
2. Alevgul H. Sorman

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1. Mario Giampietro
2. Alevgul H. Sorman

Citations in the corpus

• On the Circular Bioeconomy and Decoupling: Implications for Sustainable Growth (2019, background): “Human society (in the technosphere) gathers and concentrates material and energy forms required for its maintenance and reproduction from the context, and to achieve this result it heavily relies on non-renewable energy sources (linearization of flows) (Giampietro et al., 2012).”
• The energetic metabolism of societies and the degrowth paradigm: analyzing biophysical constraints and realities (2013, methodology): “…Vernadskiĭ, 1926; Zipf, 1941; White, 1949; Cottrell, 1955) and then implemented recently by many other authors (Fischer-Kowalski and Haberl, 2007; Giampietro and Mayumi, 2000a,b; Giampietro et al., 2011; Ramos-Martin and Giampietro, 2005; Ramos-Martin et al., 2007; Sorman and Giampietro, 2011).”