Extracting, processing, and delivering energy requires energy itself, which reduces the net energy available to society and yields considerable socioeconomic implications. Yet, most mitigation pathways and transition models overlook net energy feedbacks, specifically related to the decline in...

Over the last decades, industrializing countries have experienced economic growth, which coincided with an increase in the use of materials. In a finite world in terms of materials, the consumption of resources and the link with economic development is a challenge for economies. While most of...