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    Uncomfortable knowledge in sustainability science: essays in honor of David Pimentel (1925–2019)

    Mario Giampietro, Sandra G. F. Bukkens… in Environment, Development and Sustainability (2024)

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    Multiple-Scale Integrated Assessment of Societal Metabolism: An Analytical Tool to Study Development and Sustainability

    This paper presents an analytical approach - called Multiple-Scale Integrated Assessment of nobreak Societal Metabolism (MSIASM) - for analyzing the development of human society in relation to sustainability. ...

    Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi… in Environment, Development and Sustainability (2001)

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    An Optimum Population for North and Latin America

    The population of North America, which now stands at nearly 300 million people, is projected to double in about 60 years, while the population of nearly 500 million people in South America is projected to doub...

    David Pimentel, Mario Giampietro, Sandra G.F. Bukkens in Population and Environment (1998)

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    Labor productivity: A biophysical definition and assessment

    A model of energy analysis is presented to study the concept of labor productivity from a biophysical perspective. It is argued that current methods of defining and assessing labor productivity in the fields o.....

    Mario Giampietro, Sandra G. F. Bukkens, David Pimentel in Human Ecology (1993)

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    Limits to population size: Three scenarios of energy interaction between human society and ecosystem

    A simple theoretical model describing the interaction between humans and their environment in terms of energy flows is proposed to check the compatibility between the density of energy throughput in human soci...

    Mario Giampietro, Sandra G. F. Bukkens, David Pimentel in Population and Environment (1992)

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    Sustainable development: Scientific and ethical assessments

    The problem of assessing the sustainability of human development is discussed in theoretical and practical terms.

    Mario Giampietro, Sandra G. F. Bukkens in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (1992)