La situación actual de crisis multidimensional (económica, ecológica y social) obliga, más que nunca, a organizar la vida económico-social de otra forma, a emprender un camino socioeconómico alternativo. Para analizar ese camino, esa transición de sistema, en este artículo se plantean...

The aim of this article is to analyse the physical and ecological limits of biofuels (in particular, ethanol). To this end, three aspects are discussed. First of all, the territorial element, i.e., the real productivity of energy crops (in particular, ethanol), to show that, in general, the...

The progressive reduction of high-quality-easy-to-extract energy is a widely recognized and already ongoing process. Although depletion studies for individual fuels are relatively abundant, few of them offer a global perspective of all energy sources and their potential future developments, and...

This article reviews the recent contributions of ecological-economic modelling to the general epistemology of scientific models. It focuses, in particular, on the understanding of the process and consequences of modelling offered by ecological-economic modellers, especially by those authors...

We study whether a Green Growth strategy would allow the world economy to grow and to meet the climate goals by 2050. We apply a supermultiplier economic growth model to an environmentally extended global input-output table. Next, we integrate the model into a broader system dynamics simulation...