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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Brown JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4036828 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ecological engineering 20140401
The current economic paradigm, which is based on increasing human population, economic development, and standard of living, is no longer compatible with the biophysical limits of the finite Earth. Failure to recover from the economic crash of 2008 is not due just to inadequate fiscal and monetary policies. The continuing global crisis is also due to scarcity of critical resources. Our macroecological studies highlight the role in the economy of energy and natural resources: oil, gas, water, arab ...[more]