Special Issue on Sustainability in the Journal "Population and Environment"

ed. by Friedrich Hinterberger

The concept of "Total material flows" was developed over the last decades
in parallel by various research and policy institutions in order to map
the environmental impact potential mrom the micro level of an economy
up to its macro level. On the micro level, "mips" denotes the total material
input per unit of service-a production/consumption-related indicator, and
a concept widely used today in business practice and environmental im-pact
assessment. This special issue of the journal comprises a variety of
recent investigations on the macroeconomic mater/energy throughput
through industriaized economies and its relation to conventional economic
variables, such as GDP or employment.

The issue comprises 5 papers which were first presented at the Biannual
meeting 2000 of the European Society for Ecological Economics, held in
Vienna. Authors include Jeroen van den Bergh, Pentti Malsaka, as well as
SERI members Joachim Spangenberg, Aldo Femia and Fred Luks.

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