Announcements
Update of the Industrial Ecology Open Online Course (IEooc)
02 Aug 2022 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
The Industrial Ecology Open Online Course (IEooc), available under http://www.teaching.industrialecology.uni-freiburg.de/ has now more than 45 exercises and tutorials.
Newly added:
Exercise on the energy service cascade and stock-flow-service nexus (IEooc_Background1_Exercise1)
Global Warming...
July 21st Session 12: Scenarios for low material demand and material caps - Modelling approaches and policy relevance
04 Jul 2022 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
Join us for the 12th session of the ISIE Online Perpetual Conference!
"Scenarios for low material demand and material caps - Modelling approaches and policy relevance"
Economic growth, urbanisation and the transition to renewable energies drive material consumption. Due to the huge environmental...
Call for ISIE-SEM 2024 conference hosts
26 May 2022 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
Dear colleagues,
The board of the Socio-Economic Metabolism section of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE-SEM) is calling for expressions of interest to host the ISIE-SEM 2024 conference. This conference series is the most important one in our field. It is a platform...
Jan. 26th: 10th Session of ISIE-SEM Perpetual Conference; The physical triple bottom-line: Balancing the stock dynamics of people, products, and planet
12 Jan 2022 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
January 26th, 2022
The physical triple bottom-line: Balancing the stock dynamics of people, products, and planet
While the socio-economic metabolism community has so far focused mainly on describing stocks and flows of matter and energy in the anthroposphere, i.e., the built environment, other...
Save the date for the ISIE-SEM 2022 conference in Vienna, 19-21 September 2022
05 Nov 2021 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
After a long absence from physical conferences due to the Corona pandemic, we are happy to announce that the 14th ISIE Socio-Economic Metabolism section conference will take place in Vienna from 19-21 September 2022. The ISIE-SEM conference entitled “Transforming socio-economic metabolism in...
May 27th: 9th Session of ISIE-SEM Perpetual Conference: Progress in modelling the socio-economic metabolism - combining material flow principles and input-output analysis
18 May 2021 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
Dear SEM Section members,
In collaboration with the IO section, we are happy to announce the 9th session of the ISIE Socioeconomic Metabolism Section perpetual online conference: “Progress in modelling the socio-economic metabolism - combining material flow principles and input-output...
April 28th: 8th Session of ISIE-SEM Perpetual Conference: Socio-economic Metabolism and Oceans
15 Apr 2021 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
Dear SEM-Section members,
We are happy to announce the 8th session of the ISIE Socioeconomic Metabolism Section perpetual online conference: “Socio-economic Metabolism and the Oceans”
Societies depend on the oceans to fulfill many human needs, including the need...
Industrial Ecology open online course (IEooc) online for 3 years now
09 Feb 2021 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
The Industrial Ecology Open Online Course (IEooc) is a collection of web-based teaching material on industrial ecology background, methods, and applications. It documents and explains some of the ‘soft’ knowledge around industrial ecology concepts, methods, data, and applications that...
ISIE-SEM perpetual online conference: Session 7, February 25, 2021
08 Feb 2021 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
We are happy to announce the 7th session of the ISIE Socioeconomic Metabolism Section perpetual online conference: “Socio-economic metabolism and inequality”
The call for a decent life for all within planetary limits poses a dual challenge: Provide all people with the essential...
ISIE-SEM perpetual online conference: Session 6, January 2021
01 Jan 2021 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
We are happy to announce the 6th session of the ISIE Socioeconomic Metabolism Section perpetual online conference: “Towards Sustainable Material Stocks.”
In our socio-economic metabolism, material stocks are the other side of the coin to material flows. We need to consider both stocks...
ISIE-SEM perpetual online conference: December session
09 Dec 2020 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
Industrial Ecology and the Circular Economy – Open Online Micro-Conference on Dec 9, 2020
To keep up a good research spirit these days, the section on “Socioeconomic metabolism” of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) arranges a monthly online conference-style...
ISIE Socioeconomic Metabolism Section perpetual online conference. Session 4
27 Nov 2020 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
Dear ISIE members,
We’re happy to announce the ISIE Socioeconomic Metabolism Section perpetual online conference,
Session 4 – November 27 : Nutrients for Food
Nitrogen (N) and Potassium (K), Phosphorus (P) are the essential nutrients in plant growth. Commercial...