Announcements
Dates for 2026 ISIE-SEM conference in Cambridge, UK
10 Jul 2025 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
Further to our previous announcement that the 2026 ISIE-SEM conference will be taking place next year at the University of Cambridge, we are pleased to invite you to save the date:
6–8 July 2026 Cambridge, UK
Further details and the ca...
Industrial Ecology Data Commons (IEDC) - Critical Mass Sprint 2025
14 Apr 2025 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
2025 is the year when we move the industrial ecology data commons prototype, launched in 2018, into a functional and helpful data archiving and retrieval tool for the entire industrial ecology community!
With the help of the IEF team and the CI...
ISIE-SEM perpetual online conference, session 19: Circular Economy Modelling for Climate Change Mitigation - Updates from the Horizon Europe CIRCOMOD project
31 Jan 2025 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
While we realise that circular economy offers promising reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, we have no good understanding of its impact, magnitude, synergetic and rebound effects. The current scenarios models and scenarios do not include circul...
SEM section perpetual online conference session 18: Scenario Modelling for Transport, the Vehicle Fleet, and Materials
18 Dec 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
The transportation sector enables the mobility of people and the trade of goods, which drives economic development. However, it also accounts for a quarter of carbon dioxide emissions and almost 30% of all energy consumption globally. Besides, veh...
Pathways to Steer India’s Buildings Sector Towards a Net-Zero Future
11 Dec 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
posting this on behalf of Kaveri Ashok, CSTEP, Bengaluru, India:
In the face of the global imperative to limit the rise in temperatures to 1.5 °C (above pre-industrial level), as outlined in the Paris Agreement, nations have been striving to ...
Revived and revised SEM section homepage on the ISIE website
11 Dec 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
With more than 500 members, the Socio-Economic Metabolism (SEM) Section supports and promotes research on human energy and material use and its link to economic performance, social outcomes, and environmental impacts. Our section members’ re...
Announcing the 2026 ISIE-SEM conference in Cambridge, UK
28 Oct 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
We've excited to announce that we will be hosting the 2026 ISIE-SEM conference at the University of Cambridge, co-chaired by Jonathan Cullen and André Serrenho(University of Cambridge) and Rick Lupton (University of Bath)!
The conference w...
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...
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...