Metabolisms of energy in society and space are predicated upon human labour, in ways that
are often poorly recognized in relation to the global climate challenge. I synthesize and …

This paper presents a stylized graph of the energy intensities in two typical European sets of
countries: the East and the West, in parallel to the existing research on the European North …

World Energy Consumption A Database 1820-2018 Page 1 1 World Energy Consumption A
Database 1820-2018 (2020 revision) Paolo Malanima Page 2 2 The present statistical …

This paper provides an analysis of the role of technical advances and upscaling practices in
the steel sector and the differences in these practices between planned and market-based …

What was the role of energy in shaping modern economies and fuelling the transition to
sustained economic growth? In the historiography on the industrial revolution, the transition …

Table 1. The macroareas Table 2. Countries per macroarea Table 3. Percentage of
population in our sample of 72 countries on World population (in Table B. 1) and on total …

This article studies the fast fossil fuel transition in the context of steam adoption in the Czech
lands. I show how geographical proximity to coal brought forward the early industrialization …

Industrialization has been one of the major influences towards the escalation of atmospheric
pollutants after World War II. Metal concentrations in the atmosphere have been increased …

Sažetak This dissertation examines the role of path dependence, the idea that historical
events can lead to unpredictable outcomes, in the dynamics of energy transition …

This dissertation consists of an introductory chapter, four research essays and one essay
that describes the collected dataset. The first essay examines how the balance of land …