The Energetic Metabolism of Societies Part I: Accounting Concepts

By H. Haberl. 2001

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Methodology and Indicators of Economy‐wide Material Flow Accounting (2011, methodology): “The first is the boundary between the socioeconomic system—for example, a national economy—and the natural environment from which materials are extracted and to which emissions and wastes are discarded.”
The Energetic Metabolism of Societies: Part II: Empirical Examples (2001, methodology): “…metabolism research and thereby to industrial ecology, I have proposed an accounting concept for the energetic metabolism of societies in Part I (Haberl 2001) of this set of articles that is compatible with currently used MFA methods and that attempts to utilize, as far as possible, existing…”
Land-use change and socio-economic metabolism in Austria—Part I: driving forces of land-use change: 1950–1995 (2003, methodology): “All energy flows are reported as Petajoule per year [PJ/yr]; the energy equivalent of combustible materials was converted by using gross calorific values (Haberl, 2001).”
Material Flow Accounting: Measuring Global Material Use for Sustainable Development (2017, methodology): “, for assessing environmental impacts related to material flows or to analyze flows within the economy and recycling), MFA can be combined with other SEM methods such as substance flow analysis, life-cycle assessment (LCA), or environmentally extended input-output analysis (50, 51); material flow da”
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part I: bibliometric and conceptual mapping (2020, background): “MEFA studies add dimensions that are not considered in energy studies: biomass used as food and feed (Haberl 2001), timber and other biomassbased products, non-metallic minerals and metals used to expand andmaintain material stocks of infrastructure, buildings and machinery, as well as shortlived…”
The physical economy of the European Union: Cross-country comparison and determinants of material consumption (2006, background): “primary energy supply” - TPES (see Haberl, 2001 ).”
Conceptualizing, Observing, and Influencing Social-Ecological Transitions (2009, methodology): “The social-metabolism approach is attractive as it allows definition of the biophysical structures of societies in a way that is compatible with the compartment models usually used in systems ecology (Haberl 2001).”
A socio‐metabolic transition towards sustainability? Challenges for another Great Transformation (2011, background): “The total energy use – that is, the total use of energy, including food energy for people and livestock – is a useful indicator in this context (Haberl, 2001; Haberl, 2006), since it encompasses both total biomass use (and is thus closely coupled with land use) and the use of fossil energy (coupling”
Socio-Ecological Regime Transitions in Austria and the United Kingdom (2008, methodology): “The datasets employ standard methods for energy and material flow accounting (see Haberl, 2001; Schandl et al., 2002) and are thus based on a systemic approach.”
Approaches for Quantifying the Metabolism of Physical Economies: Part I: Methodological Overview (2001, methodology): “The “growing gray area” in methodological differentiation calls for a shared mode of analysis appropriately described by the label “material flow analysis” (or perhaps an extended “material and energy flow” analysis framework [Haberl 2001]).”
The global socioeconomic energetic metabolism as a sustainability problem (2006, methodology): “This paper applies MFA standards established in recent years in a collaborative effort [5,13,15] to socioeconomic energy flows, based upon methods proposed in recent work [14,16].”
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights (2020, background): “In 386 addition to fossil fuels used for the supply of technical energy, biomass used as food and feed 387 also constitutes an important part of a society’s energy metabolism (Haberl, 2001).”
Milk, Manure, and Muscle Power. Livestock and the Transformation of Preindustrial Agriculture in Central Europe (2004, methodology): “This methodology is discussed elsewhere in detail (Haberl, 2001; Schandl et al., 2002).”
The Global Sociometabolic Transition (2008, background): “DEC includes not only technical energy carriers such as coal, mineral oil, natural gas, wood fuel, nuclear heat, and hydropower but also all types of biomass harvested by humans or their livestock (Haberl, 2001).”