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City-company collaboration towards aligned science-based target setting
28 Feb 2025 in
Sustainable Urban Systems (Urban systems)
Xuemei Bai, Distinguished Professor, Australian National University
Combatting climate change and staying within the safe and just Earth System Boundaries require all-hands-on-deck approach. No one, no matter how ambitious they are, can do it alo...
100 years old slags of copper ores create real threats to the health of people today
There is no doubt that countries with large reserves of natural resources have significant potential to help humanity in the future, especially as we strive to access critical minerals from asteroids and other planets. However, the environmental h...
the 16th IIOA webinar recording on Youtube - "Input-Output Analysis meets Python: a MARIO crash course"
28 Sep 2024
Please see the webinar recording on Youtube in case you did not find time to join the webinar yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsMh8guC58
Thank you,
Kuishuang
Slicing the Economy to Identify Supply-Chain Impacts
13 Aug 2024 in
Environmentally Extended Input Output Section (Input-Output)
Corporate carbon footprinting is all the rage, scope 1, 2 and 3, which means taking the supply chain and potentially also the customer into account. Looking at these footprints in aggregate, it becomes clear that double-counting becomes a massive ...
Flawed 'LCA' study on AI gives false impression about the state-of-the-art in environmental assessment
30 Apr 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
Recently, a student pointed me to a publication that compares the impact of AI-generated text and pictures with human-generated content.
With its headline finding, “AI systems emit between 130 and 1500 times less CO2e per page of text gener...
The Legacy Environmental Footprints of Capital
28 Jul 2023
by Ranran Wang and Edgar Hertwich.
Manufactured capital assets, such as buildings, machinery, and transport equipment, play a pivotal role in driving economic development and human progress. Yet, a common misconception pins greenhouse gas emissio...
Can a small island be sustainable?
22 Mar 2023 in
Island Industrial Ecology (Islands)
The role of material stocks and livestock in shaping the sociometabolic transition of the past, present and future on the Greek island Samothraki
Doctoral thesis by Dominik Noll
This doctoral thesis is empirically capturing effects...
Islands at Risk - Analyzing Resource-use Dynamics from a Socio-metabolic Research Perspective
14 Feb 2023 in
Island Industrial Ecology (Islands)
By Francisco Xavier Felix Martin del Campo (ISIE profile)
Our resource-use dynamics is posited as an important example of complex systems in need for better understanding. These have contributed significantly to the improvement in global material...
Socio-metabolic research and public policy: workshop findings
29 Nov 2022
How can industrial ecology become more policy-relevant? About 30 industrial ecologists explored this question in a workshop at the ISIE-SEM 2022 conference in Vienna. During the workshop, which was organized by Stijn van Ewijk, Philip Nuss, and Al...
Thanks for a great ISIE-SEM 2022!
04 Nov 2022 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
Transforming socio-economic metabolism in times of multiple crises
19-21 September 2022, Vienna, Austria
The ISIE-SEM conference 2022 that took place from 19-12 September 2022 in Vienna was a great success. More than 180 colleagues from the wo...
Life-Cycle Information for Banks and Investors
26 Oct 2022
Never before have climate risks been so starkly visible. This Ocotober, the worst floods in a decade killed 600 in Nigeria. In September, Hurricane Ian devastated swaths of Florida, causing 100s of billions USD in damage. In August, one third of P...
Sustainability and Transitions Research: Taking the High Road
03 Jun 2022 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
In a recent opinion paper, [1] Julian Kirchherr complains about that “up to 50% of the articles that are now being published in many interdisciplinary sustainability and transitions journals may be categorized as “scholarly bullshit&rd...