Announcements
Call for contributions: Review to establish ‘stylized facts’ for the Circular Economy
30 Sep 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
The circular economy (CE) has risen to the top of global policy agendas, with high expectations that it is the new win-win-win sustainability strategy. Over the last decades, the global IE community and many other scholars have built the scientifi...
Reminder: Call for nominations for SEM board elections 2024
29 Sep 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
Dear colleagues
This is a reminder that we are still welcoming nominations for the next SEM board (chair & members).
Who do you think would be a suitable board member? Please nominate them now!
Are you enthusiastic about contrib...
16th IIOA Webinar – Input-Output Analysis meets Python: a MARIO crash course, Dr. Nicolò Golinucci
27 Sep 2024
Here is the upcoming 16th IIOA Webinar scheduled for Friday, September 27th, 2024, from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM CET
TOPICTitle: Input-Output Analysis meets Python: a MARIO crash courseAbstract: The webinar aims to provide input-outpu...
Online seminar: Scenario modelling of urban metabolism – recent progress and research trends, Nov. 6
25 Sep 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
ISIE-SEM Section Perpetual Online Conference, November 2024
Scenario modelling of urban metabolism – recent progress and research trends
Time: Wednesday, Nov. 6th, 2024, UTC: 12:00-13:30
Tokyo, JST: 21:00-22:30 (evening)
Beijing, Xiamen,...
Huge success in Beijing: The 2024 Joint ISIE Socio-Economic Metabolism and Asia-Pacific Conference gathered more than 300 IE researchers
27 Aug 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
This August saw the biannual SEM section meeting and the ISIE Asia-Pacific Conference, organized by our colleagues and friends at the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences (CUES) at Peking University in Beijing, China, from August 24-27.
Tw...
New guidelines and good practice examples: traceable workflows and reproducibility of results in industrial ecology research
30 Jul 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
Dear colleagues,
Data and data handling are at the core of industrial ecology (IE) and socio-metabolic research. With the growth and increasing complexity of IE research, partly driven by ‘big data’ and machine learning techniques, th...
New avenues for macro-economic modelling under global constraints: The HARMONEY, MARCO, and MEDEAS models
16 Jul 2024 in
Sustainable Circular Economy (Circular Economy)
Dear colleagues,I am delighted to announce an exciting upcoming webinar on "New avenues for macro-economic modelling under global constraints: The HARMONEY, MARCO, and MEDEAS models". The emerging field of ecological macro-economics is advancing r...
Call for SLCA Practitioners / Experts - Delphi Study
03 Jul 2024 in
Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (Life-cycle)
Join Us in Advancing SLCA Research!
Our team at the University of Reading is seeking practitioners in SLCA to participate in a Delphi Method study aimed at developing a Systematic Hotspot Identification Tool.
To enrol and contribute your exper...
Session 16: New avenues for macro-economic modelling under global constraints: The HARMONEY, MARCO, and MEDEAS models
30 Jun 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
The next session of the Socioeconomic Metabolism section's Perpetual Online Conference is up!We want to invite you to attend an upcoming online session of the ISEM SEM Perpetual Online Conference on "New avenues for macro-economic modell...
Is Industrial Ecologist an Occupation?
29 Jun 2024
For a number of years now, the United States Department of Labor’s O*Net program has listed industrial ecologist as an occupation. The ISIE leadership believes that it is important to maintain this designation because it gives credibility to...
Professor Tom Graedel Announces Matching Gift to ISIE
28 Jun 2024
Summary
At the International Society for Industrial Ecology’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on 25 April 2024, Tom Graedel, an ISIE member since its founding, the first president of the Society, and current chair of the ISIE Development ...
Call for applications to host the 2026 ISIE-SEM conference
17 Jun 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
Dear members of the ISIE section for socio-economic metabolism (SEM),
We are reaching out to you to today with a call for applications to host the 2026 ISIE-SEM conference. We would like to announce the 2026 conference organisers and location dur...