4. Sustainability Problems and Historical Transitions—A Description in Terms of Changes in Metabolism and Colonization Strategies

A socio-metabolic transition towards sustainability? Challenges for another Great Transformation

A sociometabolic reading of the Anthropocene: Modes of subsistence, population size and human impact on Earth

article published in 2014

Analyzing sustainability transitions as a shift between socio-metabolic regimes

scientific article

Analyzing the global human appropriation of net primary production — processes, trajectories, implications. An introduction

article

Beyond Boserup: The Role of Working Time in Agricultural Development

article

Book Review of Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, by Andreas Malm. Brooklyn, NY, USA: Verso Books, 2016, 496 pp., ISBN 9781784781293, paperback, $29.95

article

Boserup’s Theory on Technological Change as a Point of Departure for the Theory of Sociometabolic Regime Transitions

Causer-Related Indicators for Stresses Upon the Environment

Conceptualizing, Observing and Comparing Socioecological Transitions

Conclusions: Likely and Unlikely Pasts, Possible and Impossible Futures

Conclusions: Re-Evaluating Boserup in the Light of the Contributions to this Volume

Contributions of sociometabolic research to sustainability science

Core Concepts and Heuristics

Das industrielle sozialökologische Regime und globale Transitionen

Der sozial-ökologische Wirkungszusammenhang

Editorial

Energy availability and energy sources as determinants of societal development in a long-term perspective

article

Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems by Vaclav Smil

scientific article published in 2010

Energy transitions and social revolutions

Erratum: Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability Orientations for Contemporary Research

correction

Ester Boserup: An Interdisciplinary Visionary Relevant for Sustainability

Ester Boserup: an interdisciplinary visionary relevant for sustainability

scientific article

Europe’s Path Towards the Socio-Ecological Transition

Exploring the history of industrial metabolism

Freisetzungsversuche mit rekombiniertem Informationsmaterial

From LTER to LTSER: Conceptualizing the Socioeconomic Dimension of Long-term Socioecological Research

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Gesamtgesellschaftliche Entwicklungen als Bezugsrahmen wirtschaftlichen Handelns

Gesellschaftlicher Metabolismus, Territorium und Nachhaltigkeit

Global Environmental Change and Historical Transitions

Global Environmental Change and Historical Transitions

Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity: Forty Years of Evidence

scientific article published in 2017

Global Socio-metabolic Transitions

Greening Growing Giants

scientific article published in 2012

Growth in global materials use, GDP and population during the 20th century

article by Fridolin Krausmann et al published August 2009 in Ecological Economics

Island Sustainability: The Case of Samothraki

Kapitel 1. Gesellschaftliche Naturverhältnisse Globale Transformationen der Energie- und Materialflüsse

Latecomers to the Fossil Energy Transition, Frontrunners for Change? The Relevance of the Energy ‘Underdogs’ for Sustainability Transformations

Linking Society to Nature, Past to Future

Long-Term Trends in Global Material and Energy Use

MEFASPACE: A Model Predicting Freight Transport from Materials Flows, and Transport Activity in Europe

scientific article published in 2008

Metabolism and colonization. Modes of production and the physical exchange between societies and nature

article

Methodology and Indicators of Economy-wide Material Flow Accounting

article published in 2011

Modelling Transport as a Key Constraint to Urbanisation in Pre-industrial Societies

article published in 2012

More Productive, Less Sustainable? On the Need to Consider Material Resource Flows

article by Anke Schaffartzik et al published July 2016 in Intereconomics

On the history of industrial metabolism

Progress towards sustainability? What the conceptual framework of material and energy flow accounting (MEFA) can offer

Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article

Reaching a socio-ecological tipping point: Overgrazing on the Greek island of Samothraki and the role of European agricultural policies

scientific article published on 30 April 2018

Samothraki in Transition: A Report on a Real-World Lab to Promote the Sustainability of a Greek Island

scientific article published in 2020

Social Ecology

Social Metabolism and Hybrid Structures ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Social Science and Practical Knowledge: Toward New Paradigms

Social metabolism: a metric for biophysical growth and degrowth

Society's Metabolism

scientific article published in 1998

Society's Metabolism

Society's metabolism: on the childhood and adolescence of a rising conceptual star

Socio-metabolic transitions in developing Asia

article

Socioecological Transitions and Global Change

scholarly article published 2007

Sustainable development: socio-economic metabolism and colonization of nature

article

The Anthropocene Review: Its significance, implications and the rationale for a new transdisciplinary journal

article

The Archipelago of Social Ecology and the Island of the Vienna School

The Energetic Metabolism of the European Union and the United States: Decadal Energy Input Time-Series with an Emphasis on Biomass

article by Helmut Haberl et al published 8 February 2008 in Journal of Industrial Ecology

The Global Sociometabolic Transition

scientific article published in 2008

The Local Base of Transitions in Developing Countries

The physical economy of the European Union: Cross-country comparison and determinants of material consumption

scientific article published in 2006

The role of science in sustainability transitions: citizen science, transformative research, and experiences from Samothraki island, Greece

Tons, joules, and money: Modes of production and their sustainability problems

article

Toward a Socioecological Concept of Human Labor

Transforming the Greek Island of Samothraki into a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. An Experience in Transdisciplinarity

Zur sozialmetabolischen Transformation von Gesellschaft und Soziologie