Beaucaire, KrystofSaey-Volckrick, JoëlleTremblay-Pepin, Simon2026-03-172026-03-172023-09-09Beaucaire, K., Saey-Volckrick, J., & Tremblay-Pepin, S. (2023). Integration of approaches to social metabolism into democratic economic planning models. Studies in Political Economy / Recherches En Économie Politique, 104(2), 73–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2023.22347530707-8552https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07078552.2023.2234753https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2023.2234753http://hdl.handle.net/10393/51454This is the Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the Studies in Political Economy that you can find here: https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2023.2234753The integration of environmental issues in democratic economic planning models is the object of ongoing debates. Environmental factors cannot be only reduced to economic indicators, rendering economic models unable to properly account for ecological limits. By focusing on our societies’ biophysical needs, the concept of social metabolism opens new avenues to answer such problems. This paper presents two sociometabolic models and their limits to explore how this perspective could inform democratic economic planning models.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Social MetabolismDemocratic Economic PlanningEcological EconomicsArticle10.1080/07078552.2023.2234753