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8. Long-Term Trends in Global Material and Energy Use

verfasst von : Fridolin Krausmann, Anke Schaffartzik, Andreas Mayer, Nina Eisenmenger, Simone Gingrich, Helmut Haberl, Marina Fischer-Kowalski

Erschienen in: Social Ecology

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In the 20th century, the human population grew fourfold and the global economy grew 20-fold. This chapter explores how social metabolism has changed with these megatrends. It shows that material and energy use have grown faster than the population but less than the GDP, implying a growth in metabolic rates and some decoupling of resource use from economic growth. Since the beginning of the 21st century, global resource use has again accelerated, and much of the remaining world is transitioning from an agrarian to an industrial metabolic profile.

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At the global level, resource extraction and apparent consumption (resource use, DMC or DEC) of the resource are identical.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Long-Term Trends in Global Material and Energy Use
verfasst von
Fridolin Krausmann
Anke Schaffartzik
Andreas Mayer
Nina Eisenmenger
Simone Gingrich
Helmut Haberl
Marina Fischer-Kowalski
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33326-7_8