Process taxon “Social Metabolism”

The social metabolism (also simply called metabolism here since no confusion with biological metabolisms is likely) process taxon is meant to consist of the processes from material subsystems with non-negligible human-targeted physical imprints (e.g., “harvesting”, “afforestation”, “emissions”, “waste dumping”, “land-use change”, “infrastructure building”, …) and those of their parameters which cannot easily be attached to specific entity-types (e.g. a globally constant “carbon content of fossil fuels” coefficient). We expect most social-metabolic processes to deal primarily with the entity-types “social system” (e.g., processes described at national or urban level), “cell” (“local” social-metabolic processes described with additional spatial resolution for easier coupling to environmental processes) and “world” (“global” social-metabolic processes such as international trade), and only rarely with the entity-types “firm”, “household”, or even “individual” (micro-economic models).