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 b...
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 confer...
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 f...
Dear ISIE members,
We are happy to announce the third session of the ISIE Socioeconomic Metabolism Section perpetual online conference.
Session 3 – October 9: Resource constraints of the green transition
To avert dangerous climate change, a transition to ...
Dear ISIE members,
We are happy to announce the second session of the ISIE Socioeconomic Metabolism Section perpetual online conference.
Session 2 – September: Spatially explicit SEM research
Date and Time: Wednesday September 2, 2020 16:00-17:30 Central ...
Dear ISIE members,
We’re happy to announce the ISIE Socioeconomic Metabolism Section perpetual online conference and its first session.
Introducing the ISIE-SEM Perpetual Online Conference
Due to current circumstances and uncertainties around Covid-19, th...
Dear members of the section for socioeconomic metabolism section and fellow MFA practitioners,
A large number of datasets are being compiled and produced as part of material flow analysis (MFA) research, but many of them are not available or cumbersome to extract (pdf, lacking systems c...
Dear SEM section members,
We are glad to announce that the 14th ISIE-SEM section conference will be held during EcoBalance 2020 from September 8 - 11 in Japan. The SEM section
meeting will be organized as a special session in EcoBalance 2020 which is an international conference on...
In November the Socio-Economic Metabolism (SEM) section held elections for a new board. There was a great list of candidates to choose from and we would like to thank all members who made themselves available for this election, as well as all the people who voted in this election. The new board that...
The prototype of an industrial ecology data commons (IEDC), based on a comprehensive data model for socioeconomic metabolism (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jiec.12890) and hosted at the University of Freiburg, Germany, contains now almost 1.1 million data points in 180 datasets.
The work life of a researcher working sustainable development can be frustrating at times, owing to widespread pay-wall publishing, poor data reporting practices, and in parts low standards for conducting sound and reproducible research. Still today, too many doctoral candidates start their work wit...
Inspired by discussions during the ISIE conference in Beijing, I compiled a fact sheet on Good Scientific Practice in Industrial Ecology, based on some teaching material that I had available and input from colleagues who are acknowledged.
The document, which is available under
