Long-Term Trends in Global Material and Energy Use

Fridolin Krausmann; Anke Schaffartzik; Andreas Mayer; Nina Eisenmenger; Simone Gingrich; Helmut Haberl; Marina Fischer-Kowalski

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Long-Term Trends in Global Material and Energy Use

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

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Social Ecology
Subtitle of host publication	Society-Nature Relations across Time and Space
Editors	Helmut Haberl, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Fridolin Krausmann, Verena Winiwarter
Publisher	Springer
Pages	199–216
ISBN (Print)	9783319333243
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33326-7_8
State	Published - 2016

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Name	Human-Environment Interactions
Volume	5

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Krausmann, F., Schaffartzik, A., Mayer, A., Eisenmenger, N., Gingrich, S., Haberl, H., & Fischer-Kowalski, M. (2016). Long-Term Trends in Global Material and Energy Use. In H. Haberl, M. Fischer-Kowalski, F. Krausmann, & V. Winiwarter (Eds.), Social Ecology : Society-Nature Relations across Time and Space (pp. 199–216). ( Human-Environment Interactions; Vol. 5). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33326-7_8

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Social Ecology : Society-Nature Relations across Time and Space. ed. / Helmut Haberl; Marina Fischer-Kowalski; Fridolin Krausmann; Verena Winiwarter. Springer, 2016. p. 199–216 ( Human-Environment Interactions; Vol. 5).

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Long-Term Trends in Global Material and Energy Use

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