Long term changes in social metabolism and land use in Czechoslovakia, 1830?2000: An energy transition under changing political regimes

Abstract

The transition from an agrarian to an industrial society leads to new patterns in social metabolism, a process which has been described as socio-metabolic transition. This paper investigates this transition on Czech area in the last 170 years.

Keywords

• Social metabolism
• Energy flow analysis
• Land use
• Czechoslovakia
• Industrialization
• Physical economy