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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.03.013
	The global metabolic transition: Regional patterns and trends of global material flows, 1950-2010
	Schaffartzik A.; Mayer A.; Gingrich S.; Eisenmenger N.; Loy C.; Krausmann F.
发表日期	2014
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	26 期号:1
英文摘要	Since the World War II, many economies have transitioned from an agrarian, biomass-based to an industrial, minerals-based metabolic regime. Since 1950, world population grew by factor 2.7 and global material consumption by factor 3.7-71. Gigatonnes per year in 2010. The expansion of the resource base required by human societies is associated with growing pressure on the environment and infringement on the habitats of other species. In order to achieve a sustainability transition, we require a better understanding of the currently ongoing metabolic transition and its potential inertia. In this article, we present a long-term global material flow dataset covering material extraction, trade, and consumption of 177 individual countries between 1950 and 2010. We trace patterns and trends in material flows for six major geographic and economic country groupings and world regions (Western Industrial, the (Former) Soviet Union and its allies, Asia, the Middle East and Northern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa) as well as their contribution to the emergence of a global metabolic profile during a period of rapid industrialization and globalization. Global average material use increased from 5.0 to 10.3. tons per capita and year (t/cap/a) between 1950 and 2010. Regional metabolic rates range from 4.5. t/cap/a in Sub-Saharan Africa to 14.8. t/cap/a in the Western Industrial grouping. While we can observe a stabilization of the industrial metabolic profile composed of relatively equal shares of biomass, fossil energy carriers, and construction minerals, we note differences in the degree to which other regions are gravitating toward a similar form of material use. Since 2000, Asia has overtaken the Western Industrial grouping in terms of its share in global resource use although not in terms of its per capita material consumption. We find that at a sub-global level, the roles of the world regions have changed. There are, however, no signs yet that this will lead to stabilization or even a reduction of global resource use. © 2014 The Authors.
英文关键词	Global material use; Industrial metabolism; Material flow accounting; Metabolic profiles
学科领域	consumption behavior; fossil fuel; globalization; industrialization; material flow analysis; population growth; resource use; war; Asia; Caribbean Islands; Latin America; Middle East; North Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; USSR
语种	英语
scopus关键词	consumption behavior; fossil fuel; globalization; industrialization; material flow analysis; population growth; resource use; war; Asia; Caribbean Islands; Latin America; Middle East; North Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; USSR
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117781
作者单位	Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Wien, Graz, Austria; Institute of Social Ecology, Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt-Wien-Graz, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Vienna, Austria
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Schaffartzik A.,Mayer A.,Gingrich S.,et al. The global metabolic transition: Regional patterns and trends of global material flows, 1950-2010[J],2014,26(1).
APA	Schaffartzik A.,Mayer A.,Gingrich S.,Eisenmenger N.,Loy C.,&Krausmann F..(2014).The global metabolic transition: Regional patterns and trends of global material flows, 1950-2010.Global Environmental Change,26(1).
MLA	Schaffartzik A.,et al."The global metabolic transition: Regional patterns and trends of global material flows, 1950-2010".Global Environmental Change 26.1(2014).