A framework to analyze the dynamics of the socioeconomic metabolism of countries: A Portuguese case study.
Socioeconomic metabolism dynamics are relevant to identify (un)sustainable development pathways in different economies, particularly if the evolution of resource productivity of critical economic sectors can be quantified. This paper offers a four‐step methodological framework to quantify these dyna...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Industrial Ecology Vol. 25; no. 6; pp. 1398 - 1412 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2021
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