Between 1995 and 2008, the global extraction of biomass, fossil fuels, and minerals grew from 48 to 69 billion metric tons. This study investigates how changing consumption and investment patterns affected the aforementioned increase. A series of Structural Decomposition Analyses at a global...

In the article is described an observation of new phenomenon, called by the author with working title “Cross Country Consumption” In the cases of food consumption and cross export it could be called “Food arbitrage”. In the case where same action, but with raw materials is involved, it...