Socioeconomic metabolism as paradigm for studying the biophysical basis of human societies

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The Material Stock–Flow–Service Nexus: A New Approach for Tackling the Decoupling Conundrum (2017, background): “The concept of socioeconomic metabolism has become a cornerstone of sustainability science [9,10].”
Material Flow Accounting: Measuring Global Material Use for Sustainable Development (2017, background): “The concept of socio-economic metabolism (SEM, sometimes also known as social or industrial metabolism) is a holistic approach to investigate the biophysical patterns and dynamics of socioeconomic material and energy flows, as well as their underlying drivers (13, 14).”
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights (2020, background): “The socio-ecological systems perspective of socio-economic metabolism (Fischer-Kowalski 1998, Pauliuk and Müller 2014, Pauliuk and Hertwich 2015, Haberl et al 2019) stresses that socio-economic systems continuously require materials and energy for all economic activity and the reproduction of…”
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part I: bibliometric and conceptual mapping (2020, background): “These interdependences between the socio-economic system and its biophysical basis are fundamental to understanding the role of economic growth and prospects for absolute resource and impact decoupling at the required scale and speed (Pauliuk and Hertwich 2015, Haberl et al 2019).”