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social metabolism: a standalone construct

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socialmetabolism1 CONSTRUCTSocial metabolismFISCHER‐KOWALSKI · ECOLOGICAL

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Ecological economics

the flows of materials and energy that a society extracts, transforms and returns to nature, studied by tracing them with material flow accounting.

In ecological economics, social metabolism refers to the flows of materials and energy that a society extracts, transforms and returns to nature, studied by tracing them with material flow accounting. This meaning comes from Fischer‐Kowalski (1998) in Journal of Industrial Ecology.[1]

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  1. Fischer‐Kowalski, M. (1998). Society's Metabolism: The Intellectual History of Materials Flow Analysis, Part I, 1860– 1970. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2(1), 61-78. https://doi.org/10.1162/jiec.1998.2.1.61

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