Different trajectories of exosomatic energy metabolism for Brazil, Chile and Venezuela: using the MSIASM approach

Jesus Ramos-Martín, Nina Eisenmenger () and Heinz Schandl ()
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Jesus Ramos-Martín: Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Nina Eisenmenger: IFF Social Ecology, University of Klagenfurt, Schottenfeldgasse
Heinz Schandl: CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Gunghalin Homestead

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Abstract: Economic development goes hand in hand with an increase in the consumption of natural resources. Some analysts use material flows to describe such relationship [Eurostat 2001, Weisz et al., 2006], or exergy [Ayres et al., 2003]. Instead this paper will use a characterisation of the exosomatic energy metabolism based on expected benchmark values to describe possible constraints to economic development posed by available human time and energy. The aim of the paper is to identify types of exosomatic energy metabolism of different societies to interpret its consequences for economic development. This is done with the application of the accounting methodology called Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal Metabolism (MSIASM) to the particular case of energy metabolism for the analysis of the economies of Brazil, Chile and Venezuela.

Keywords: Development; Energy; Social Metabolism; MSIASM; Brazil; Chile; Venezuela (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O13 O54 Q01 Q57 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2008-01
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