Societal Metabolism | research line of the IASTE group

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to the site of the Societal Metabolism Research Line of the research group on Integrated Assessment: Sociology, Technology and the Environment (IASTE). We are a research group hosted by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (more here) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and supported by the SGR program of the Catalan Government.

2014	Giampietro M., Aspinall R.J., Ramos-Martín J. and Bukkens S.G.F. (Eds.) (2014). Resource Accounting for Sustainability: The Nexus between Energy, Food, Water and Land Use. London: Routledge, 250 pp.
2013	Giampietro M, Mayumi K and Sorman AH (2013). Energy Analysis for a Sustainable Future: Multi-scale integrated analysis of societal and ecosystem metabolism. Routledge.
2012	Giampietro M, Mayumi K and Sorman AH (2012). The Metabolic Pattern of Societies: Where Economists Fall Short. Routledge.
2011	Ramos-Martin J , Giampietro M, Ulgiati S, Bukkens, SGF (Eds.) (2011): Can We Break the Addiction to Fossil Energy? Proceedings of the 7th Biennial International Workshop Advances in Energy Studies. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
2011	Mestre M, Ortega M, Musoles L, Ramos-Martin J (2011): Conflictos socio-ambientales de la acuicultura del camarón en Centroamérica. Un análisis desde la justicia ambiental. Colección DOCS Núm.1. Vilanova i la Geltrú: Fundació Ent.
2009	Ramos-Martin J (Coordinator)(2009): Us de l’energia a Catalunya. Analisi del Metabolisme Energetic de l’Economia Catalana. Consell Assessor per al Desenvolupament Sostenible, Generalitat de Catalunya.
2009	Giampietro M and Mayumi K (2009). The Biofuel Delusion: The fallacy of large-scale agro-biofuel production. Earthscan.
2008	Polimeni J, Mayumi K, Giampietro M, and Alcott B (2008) Jevons’ Paradox: the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements. Earthscan.
2004	Iraegui J, and Ramos-Martin J. (2004):Gestio Local de l’Energia [Local Energy Management]. Fundacio Pi i Sunyer i Diputacio de Barcelona.
2003	Giampietro M (2003). Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Agro-ecosystems. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
2003	Russi D, Puig I, Ramos-Martin J, Ortega M, and Ungar P (2003): Deuda Ecologica. ¿Quien debe a quien? [Ecological Debt. Who owes whom?] Icaria Editorial. (Here in Googlebooks)

2015	Diaz-Maurin F., Kovacic, Z. (2015). The unresolved controversy over nuclear power: A new approach from complexity theory. Global Environmental Change 31 (C), 207–216. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.01.014.
2015	Velasco-Fernandez, R., Ramos-Martin, J., Giampietro, M. (2015). The energy metabolism of China and India between 1971 and 2010: Studying the bifurcation. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 41: 1052-1066. doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.08.065.
2014	Kovacic, Z. (2014). Assessing sustainability: The societal metabolism of water in Israel. International Journal of Performability Engineering, 4: 387-399.
2014	Diaz-Maurin F. (2014). Going beyond the nuclear controversy. Environmental Science & Technology 48 (1), pp 25–26. doi: 10.1021/es405282z.
2013	Scheidel A, Giampietro M, Ramos-Martin J (2013). Self-sufficiency vs. super-surplus: Conflicting local and national rural development goals in Cambodia. Land Use Policy 34:342 -352.
2013	Madrid C, Cabello V, Giampietro M (2013). Water-Use Sustainability in Socioecological Systems: A Multiscale Integrated Approach. BioScience 63 (1):14-24.
2013	Diaz-Maurin F., Giampietro M (2013). A “grammar” for assessing the performance of power-supply systems: comparing nuclear energy to fossil energy. Energy 49:162–177.
2013	Scheidel A (2013). Flows, funds and the complexity of deprivation: Using concepts from ecological economics for the study of poverty. Ecological Economics 86:28-36.
2013	Sorman AH, Giampietro M (2013) The energetic metabolism of societies and the degrowth paradigm: analyzing biophysical constraints and realities. Journal of Cleaner Production, 38:80-93.
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