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Limits for Anthropogenic Material and Energy Flows

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For human societies, there are various limiting factors for development, such as availability of food, raw materials for producing goods, capital for investment, environmental effects, and/or international conflicts. In the context of this book, this chapter introduces five factors representing the supply of energy and raw materials, as well as environmental effects on regional and global scales. It remains an open question, which of these factors will become the most determining and when.

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  1. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Engler-Bunte-Institut, Engler-Bunte-Ring 1, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Schaub

  2. Institut für Chemische und Elektrochemische Verfahrenstechnik, TU Clausthal, Leibnizstraße 17, 38678, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Turek

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Schaub, G., Turek, T. (2016). Limits for Anthropogenic Material and Energy Flows. In: Energy Flows, Material Cycles and Global Development. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29495-7_6

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