Marina Fischer-Kowalski

Beyond IPAT and Kuznets Curves: Globalization as a Vital Factor in Analyzing the Environmental Impact of Socio-Economic Metabolism.” Population and Environment 23:7–47 (2001)

Marina Fischer-kowalski, Christof Amann

We bring the rapidly developing tools for analyzing “society’s metabolism ” to the attention of a scientific audience concerned with matters of population and, in a complementary fashion, we...

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-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...