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BioPhysical Economics and Resource Quality
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Identyfikatory
ISSN | 2366-0112 |
e-ISSN | 2366-0120 |
Wydawca
Springer International Publishing
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Zbiór danych: Springer
Artykuły
BioPhysical Economics and Resource Quality > 2019 > 4 > 3 > 1-9
Global food security for a population of 9 billion by 2050 depends on a complex socioeconomic and biophysical system. Current strategies involve decreasing food losses, increasing yields, and improving distribution efficiencies. Herein, we use a systems-based approach to show that contrary to a historically rising global dietary energy production (DEP: per capita calories grown or captured), food...
BioPhysical Economics and Resource Quality > 2019 > 4 > 3 > 1-19
The integration of feedbacks between Holocene planetary history and human development benefits from a change in perspective that focusses on socio-historical periods of stability separated by global-scale events, which we call foundational transitions or bottlenecks. Transitions are caused by social and/or astronomical and biogeophysical events such as volcanoes, changes in solar emissions, climate...
BioPhysical Economics and Resource Quality > 2019 > 4 > 3 > 1-16
The observed proportionality between nominal prices and average embodied energies cannot be explained with conventional economic theory. A model is presented that places energy transfers as the focal point of scarcity based on the idea that (i) goods are material rearrangements, and (ii) humans can only rearrange matter with energy transfers. Modified consumer and producer problems for an autarkic...