Global socioeconomic material stocks rise 23-fold over the 20th century and require half of annual resource use

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• Publication year

  2017

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  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2017-02-06

• Fields of study

  Engineering, Medicine, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1613773114PMID 28167761PMCID PMC5338421
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