Fridolin Krausmann

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

Haberl, Helmut, Erb, K. Heinz, Krausmann, Fridolin, Gaube, Veronika, Bondeau, Alberte, Plutzar, Christoph, ...

Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP), the aggregate impact of land use on biomass available each year in ecosystems, is a prominent measure of the human domination of the biosphere....

Socio-Ecological Regime Transitions in Austria and the United Kingdom

Fridolin Krausmann, Heinz Schandl, Rolf Peter Sieferle

We employ the concepts of socio-ecological regime and regime transition to better understand the biophysical causes and consequences of industrialization. For two case studies, the United Kingdom and...

Socio-metabolic Transitions in Developing Asia

Heinz Schandl, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Clemens Grunbuhel, Fridolin Krausmann

A possible sustainability transition in developing Asia needs to complement the ongoing transition from an agrarian to an industrial socio-ecological regime. As is known from other world regions, an...

Global patterns of socioeconomic biomass flows in the year 2000: A comprehensive assessment of supply, consumption and constraints

Krausmann, Fridolin, Erb, Karl-Heinz, Gingrich, Simone, Lauk, Christian, Haberl, Helmut

Human use of biomass has become a major component of the global biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nitrogen. The use of land for biomass production (e.g. cropland) is among the most important...

Socio-ecological regime transitions in Austria and the United Kingdom

Krausmann, Fridolin, Schandl, Heinz, Sieferle, Rolf Peter

We employ the concepts of socio-ecological regime and regime transition to better understand the biophysical causes and consequences of industrialization. For two case studies, the United Kingdom and...

Long term changes in social metabolism and land use in Czechoslovakia, 1830-2000: An energy transition under changing political regimes

Kuskova, Petra, Gingrich, Simone, Krausmann, Fridolin

Industrialisation goes along with sweeping changes in society's interrelations with its environment. The transition from an agrarian to an industrial society leads to fundamentally new patterns in...