International Industrial Ecology Day 2021

NEW! SLOT 9: Spotlight session: Industrial Symbiosis & Eco-industrial Development

This session is part of the Americas track of the IE day and is scheduled for 5:00-7:00 pm (Berlin, Cape Town) / 4:00-6:00 pm (London) / 12:00 pm-2:00 pm (Rio) / 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (New York) / 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (UTC-5, Bogota) / 8:00-10:00 am (UTC-7, San Francisco) (Slot 9)

The section on Industrial Symbiosis, part of International society on Industrial Ecology invites researchers, and practitioners to submit contributions for this Spotlight session.

Scarcity of resources, climate change, the Covid crisis, and the demands for a circular economy, position industrial symbiosis in the spotlight. The symbiotic models consider networks of firms and agribusiness, including regional networks, Eco-Industrial Parks and value chains, were companies together with their neighbors and/or suppliers advance innovative initiatives, leading to resource efficiency and new business models. The challenge implies translating the theories of industrial ecology into practice through industrial symbiosis by sharing and developing knowledge on the opportunities, mechanisms, benefits, dynamics of interfirm-collaborations aiming at resource efficiency.

Practitioners of firms, international organizations, governments are invited to share their experiences, programs and opportunities to develop and scale the industrial symbiosis practice. The academic community is encouraged to enhance knowledge and innovation for symbiotic systems, through cooperation with international organizations, companies, and government organizations. This call for papers includes, and it not limited, by the following questions:

• How does the COVID pandemic influence Industrial Symbiosis opportunities?
• What regional programs on Eco-Industrial Parks developments or networks have emerged?
• What are the opportunities for collaborations in Industrial symbiosis initiatives among academics, practitioners for firms, governments and international organizations? 

The contributions consider 10 minute presentations based on documented research, case description, or discussion documents. A summary of 300 words has to be summited to the Industrial Symbiosis section board and a selection will be based criteria such as; clarity of the submission, geographic representation, representation of diverse stakeholders (research, practitioner, public policy).  Three submissions will be selected for presentation in the spotlight session.

Organizers: Industrial Symbiosis Section

Deadline: May 08, 2021

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SLOT 10: Poster and networking session for Africa, Europe, and the Americas

This session is part of the Americas/Europe-Africa track of the IE day and is scheduled for 7:00-9:00 pm (Berlin, Cape Town) / 6:00-8:00 pm (London) / 2:00-4:00 pm (Rio) / 1:00-3:00 pm (New York) / 12:00- 2:00 pm (UTC-5, Bogota) / 10:00-12:00 pm (UTC-7, San Francisco) (Slot 10)

The 2021 Industrial Ecology Day will feature online poster sessions that are open to all ISIE members. While the coarse structure is set, the details of the poster presentation still need to be figured out. The poster session is open to all kinds of IE-related topics.

Presenters will be asked to upload their poster (in jpg) to a platform (to be determined) prior to the event. These posters will be available during the entire event and for a couple of days after. The actual poster sessions will feature online meetings with breakout rooms, and all poster presenters will be asked to be available in these breakout rooms at a given time for at least 20 minutes to engage in a discussion with the visitors. There may also be the possibility to upload a short audio pitch (max. 3 minutes) that is then permanently linked to the poster upload (to be determined).

If you would like to upload and present a poster during the IE Day Africa-Europe-Americas poster session, please upload an abstract of 200 words max. here. You may consider submitting an abstract to one of the topical sessions first. Submissions that do not fit into the topical sessions but are deemed of sufficiently high quality will be offered a spot in one of the poster sessions. 

IMPORTANT! All posters will be eligibible for the best poster awards! The procedure for public voting will be announced in due course.

Organizers: This session is organized by Kavya Madhu (University of Freiburg), with support from the IE Day Digital Committee

Deadline: Jun 07, 2021

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SLOT 12: Exploring the intersection of industrial ecology and green investing

This session is part of the Americas track of the IE day and is scheduled for 5:00-7:00 pm (UTC-4, New York)/ 4:00-6:00 pm (UTC-5, Bogota), 2:00-4:00 pm (UTC-7, San Francisco), (Slot 12)

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information is used by the sustainable investment community, and increasingly the mainstream finance industry, to measure and compare the environmental and social aspects of companies, funds, and investments. This growth in interest has highlighted the need for objective and transparent ESG metrics and data, which to date are often self-reported and unconnected with measurable life-cycle impacts. In this session, we will share, discuss, and learn about research that bridges ESG information with industrial ecology methods and frameworks. Three to five short (10-15 minute) presentations will be followed with breakout discussions capturing both feedback to presented approaches as well as new ideas and directions from participants. Discussion will be global and economy-wide in scope, with deep dives into particular regions and sectors by accepted speakers

If you wish to present in one of the 10-15 time slots, please submit a short abstract that describes your approach, including methodological focus (life-cycle assessment, material flow analysis, input-output analysis, etc.) and regional and sectoral scope and scale.

Organizers: Nathaniel Springer and Jennifer Schmitt (University of Minnesota)

Deadline: May 25, 2021

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SLOT 12: Spotlight Session: EEIO Frontiers Americas

This session is part of the Americas track of the IE day and is scheduled for 5:00-7:00 pm (UTC-4, New York)/ 4:00-6:00 pm (UTC-5, Bogota), 2:00-4:00 pm (UTC-7, San Francisco), (Slot 12).

The EEIO-Frontiers session is open to the latest research on data, methods and empirical studies with an environmentally-extended input-output analysis (EEIO). Expected presentations includes scientific findings and policy suggestions derived by EEIO developments in footprint analysis, material flow analysis, waste IO analysis, LCA, network analysis, supply chain analysis and optimization.

The format will be a chain of presentations, followed by a short Q&A, and the duration of the talk will be adjusted to the total number of presenters.

Deadline: May 08, 2021

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SLOT 1: Circular Economy of the Built Environment

This session is part of the Asia-Pacific track of the IE day and is scheduled for 9.30-11 am (Sydney), 8.30-10 am (Tokyo), and 7.30-9 am (Beijing) (Slot 1)

The built environment is one of the main contributors to global greenhouse gases and raw material extraction. It is necessary to take into account the need to restore the environment and make an immediate shift towards sustainable built practices. The academia and practice recognize the adoption of circular economy (CE) is a prerequisite to sustainable built environment. The CE concept is to retain the value of resources and prevent the use of raw material and waste outputs through regenerative design. The goal of this session is to explore the CE applications in the built environment, including the potential methods and regulations on CE development, the benefits and challenges on CE application, CE case studies, etc.

Organizers: Haibo Feng (Northumbria University) and Peixian Li (Tongji University)

Deadline: May 25, 2021

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SLOT 1: Renewable energy transition in emerging economies and its implications for the Sustainable Development Goals

This session is part of the Asia-Pacific track of the IE day and is scheduled for 9.30-11 am (Sydney), 8.30-10 am (Tokyo), and 7.30-9 am (Beijing) (Slot 1)

Increasing prosperity in fast-growing emerging economies (EEs) will be the main driver in future growth of global energy demand. Hence, accelerating sustainable energy transitions is key in achieving climate mitigation promises and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for EEs. Energy transition from fossil to renewables reduces environmental burdens of energy system. It contributes to decoupling economic growth and environmental degradation, and is closely tied to responsible consumption and production. Meanwhile, energy transition reshapes the connections between energy and other systems, such as energy-water-food nexus. It affects broadly on aspects relevant with social and gender inequalities in employment, poverty, energy poverty etc. These wide and uncertain environmental-economic-social implications vary at different scales, from cities to nations. The wide interconnections between energy transition and SDGs call for in-depth research. This session aims to facilitate understandings to the impact of energy transition on the achievement of SDGs for EEs.

Organizers: Xu Zhao, Jiashuo Li, Honglin Zhong and Xi Liu (Institute of Blue and Green Development, Shandong University, Weihai, China)

Deadline: May 14, 2021

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SLOT 1: Securing material base for carbon neutrality

This session is part of the Asia-Pacific track of the IE day and is scheduled for 9.30-11 am (Sydney), 8.30-10 am (Tokyo), and 7.30-9 am (Beijing) (Slot 1)

The world is embracing continuing carbon-neutrality pledges from the EU, China, Japan, and other nations. Such grand transition requires unprecedented technology and socioeconomic shift, which will result in and would be constrained by the surge of emerging green infrastructure, raw materials demand, solid waste generation, and several corresponding resource, environmental, economic, and policy challenges. Here, this session calls for abstracts related to framework construction, model development, and case studies on sustainable material use to support the national and global carbon-neutral transition. We welcome studies with topics including but not limited to:

• Material system research towards carbon neutrality
• Material efficiency for climate mitigation and adaption
• Sustainable material supply and risk assessment
• Waste management related to emerging green infrastructure (i.e. solar panels, wind power, batteries, etc.)
• Integrated modeling of material system with energy and climate planning

Organizers: Peng Wang and Wei-qiang Chen (Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Deadline: May 08, 2021

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SLOT 3: Poster and Networking Session for Asia-Pacific

This session is part of the Asia-Pacific track of the IE day and is scheduled for 1:00-3:00 pm (Sydney), 12:00-2:00 pm (Tokyo), and 11:00 am-1:00 pm (Beijing)  (Slot 3)

The 2021 Industrial Ecology Day will feature online poster sessions that are open to all ISIE members. While the coarse structure is set, the details of the poster presentation still need to be figured out. The poster session is open to all kinds of IE-related topics.

Presenters will be asked to upload their poster (in jpg) to a platform (to be determined) prior to the event. These posters will be available during the entire event and for a couple of days after. The actual poster sessions will feature online meetings with breakout rooms, and all poster presenters will be asked to be available in these breakout rooms at a given time for at least 20 minutes to engage in a discussion with the visitors. There may also be the possibility to upload a short audio pitch (max. 3 minutes) that is then permanently linked to the poster upload (to be determined).

If you would like to upload and present a poster during the IE Day Africa-Europe-Americas poster session, please upload an abstract of 200 words max. here. You may consider submitting an abstract to one of the topical sessions first. Submissions that do not fit into the topical sessions but are deemed of sufficiently high quality will be offered a spot in one of the poster sessions. 

IMPORTANT! All posters will be eligibible for the best poster awards! The procedure for public voting will be announced in due course.

Deadline: Jun 07, 2021

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SLOT 4: Spotlight session: EEIO Frontiers Asia-Pacific

This session is part of the Asia-Pacific track of the IE day and is scheduled for 3:00-5:00 pm (Sydney), 2:00-4:00 pm (Tokyo), and 1:00-3:00 pm (Beijing) (Slot 4)

The EEIO-Frontiers session is open to the latest research on data, methods and empirical studies with an environmentally-extended input-output analysis (EEIO). Expected presentations includes scientific findings and policy suggestions derived by EEIO developments in footprint analysis, material flow analysis, waste IO analysis, LCA, network analysis, supply chain analysis and optimization.

The format will be a chain of presentations, followed by a short Q&A, and the duration of the talk will be adjusted to the total number of presenters.

Deadline: May 08, 2021

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SLOT 4: The future of Artificial Intelligence in the context of Industrial Ecology (1)

This session is part of the Asia-Pacific track of the IE day and is scheduled for 3:00-5:00 pm (Sydney), 2:00-4:00 pm (Tokyo), and 1:00-3:00 pm (Beijing) (Slot 4)

The seminar seeks to collect the community views on the current and long-term application and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the field of industrial Ecology (IE). The purpose is to identify potential research directions in the field of AI and data science. The seminar is divided into two slots, slot 4 for abstract presentations and slot 5 for panel discussion.

Deadline: May 25, 2021

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SLOT 5: Implication of circular economy for resource-exporting economies

This session is part of the Africa-Europe track of the IE day and is scheduled for 3:00-5:00 pm (Beijing), 9:00-11:00 am (Berlin, Cape Town), and 8:00-10:00 am (London) (Slot 5)

Ambitions for a more circular economy are appealing to jurisdictions that rely strongly on imports of materials from elsewhere, though that may be fuelled by a false understanding of the relationship between self-sufficiency and sustainability. For resource-exporting nations, advances in circularity by their trading partners may be more threatening. In this session we want to provide a platform to researchers that are examining this question using industrial ecology concepts or methods. Contributions based on MFA are especially welcome, e.g. to examine the relative sizes of exports to the domestic economy, circularity indicators in the domestic economy or such nations, or impacts/rucksacks associated with exports (e.g. by LCA) and how those might change as the global energy transition accelerates. Contributions using SFAs for particular resources are equally welcome. Authors wishing to participate should submit an abstract and should be able to post a viewable presentation ahead of the scheduled event, which would focus on a discussion by authors and session visitors.

Organizers: Harro von Blottnitz and Akshi Singh (University of Cape Town) and Willi Haas (University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU))

Deadline: May 25, 2021

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SLOT 5: Towards improved representation of land use impacts in Industrial Ecology

This session is part of the Africa-Europe track of the IE day and is scheduled for 3:00-5:00 pm (Beijing), 9:00-11:00 am (Berlin, Cape Town), and 8:00-10:00 am (London) (Slot 5)

Human activities have already affected more than 70% of the global ice-free land surface, and have caused extensive changes in habitats and diversity. In the past decade, increasing efforts in the industrial ecology community have been striving to achieve better knowledge on drivers and impacts of land use disturbances, and developed novel methods to assess alternative strategies that can reconcile a sustainable supply of land-based products and land management (agriculture, forestry, livestock) with climate change mitigation and nature conservation, within a context of increasing competition of land resources. This session welcomes submissions of recent works that assess how human activities interact with land systems, in terms of both methodological developments for better characterization of land-climate interactions and impacts of land use on species diversity and ecosystem services.

Organizers: Francesca Verones (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU)

Deadline: May 25, 2021

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SLOT 7: Improving building circularity through BIM/LCA integration

This session is part of the Europe-Africa track of the IE day and is scheduled for 1:00-3:00 pm (Berlin, Cape Town)/12:00-2:00 pm (London) (Slot 7)

The goal of this session is to share research agendas of circular buildings to enable increased recovery, reuse and recycling of construction materials. The session will start with current methodologies including Building Information Modelling (BIM)/LCA integration and its application to singular building (elements). Moreover, the analysis of circular material use in building stocks will be discussed. Bottom-up building stock models allow spatializing material use and resources, while simultaneously looking at future housing demand and renovation need in cities. This session focuses on the embodied impacts of new construction and renovation of urban (residential and non-residential) building stocks. 

The session will be organized as follows: five presentations from selected speakers (12 minutes each), followed by a moderated panel discussion of the speakers (30 minutes) and an open Q&A (15 minutes).

Organizers: Paulo Ferrão (IST), Helge Brattebø (NTNU) and António Lorena (3drivers)

Deadline: May 25, 2021

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SLOT 7: Modelling uncertainty and variability in Industrial Ecology

This session is part of the Europe-Africa track of the IE day and is scheduled for 1:00-3:00 pm (Berlin, Cape Town)/12:00-2:00 pm (London) (Slot 7)

The goal of this session is to present recent research on modelling uncertainty and variability in Industrial Ecology.
This session is a follow-up on the Special Session at the 2017 conference in Chicago on the topic, written up here: https://www.ricklupton.name/2018/isie-moving-beyond-averages/. The aim of the session is to update/dispute the view summarised there based on developments in the past 4 years.
There will be 5-6 presentations, followed by a plenary discussion.

Organizers: Rick Lupton, University of Bath, UK.

Deadline: May 25, 2021

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SLOT 7: Spotlight session: EEIO Frontiers Africa-Europe

This session is part of the Europe-Africa track of the IE day and is scheduled for 1:00-3:00 pm (Berlin, Cape Town)/12:00-2:00 pm (London) (Slot 7).

The EEIO-Frontiers session is open to the latest research on data, methods and empirical studies with an environmentally-extended input-output analysis (EEIO). Expected presentations includes scientific findings and policy suggestions derived by EEIO developments in footprint analysis, material flow analysis, waste IO analysis, LCA, network analysis, supply chain analysis and optimization.

The format will be a chain of presentations, followed by a short Q&A, and the duration of the talk will be adjusted to the total number of presenters.

Deadline: May 08, 2021

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SLOT 8: Bottom-up urban built environment MFA: Data, Methods, Challenges and Comparability

This session is part of the Europe-Africa/Americas track of the IE day and is scheduled for 3:00-5:00 pm (Berlin, Cape Town)/ 2:00-4:00 pm (London), 10:00am-12:00 pm (Rio), 9:00-11:00 am (New York) (Slot 8)

The goal of this session is to discuss ongoing bottom-up urban MFA research, including in the areas of methodology, case studies, and analysis, to facilitate collaboration and advancement in the field. Questions that we would like to discuss in the session include:

• What questions can bottom-up models answer and where are the frontiers?
• What are the gaps in methods, data, and the research landscape?
• What are the trade-offs between detail and completeness?
• Where do we see potentials and largest benefit for collaborative efforts?

Scope: Global; bottom-up MFA; urban, built environment, and/or construction focus

Organizers: Danielle Densley Tingley, Maud Lanau and Hadi Arbabi (University of Sheffield), Rupert J. Myers and Mohit Arora (Imperial College London), Niko Heeren (NTNU), Matan Mayer (IE University), Shoshanna Saxe and Gursans Guven (University of Toronto)

Deadline: May 08, 2021

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SLOT 9: Cities beyond borders: Rethinking the urban metabolism

This session is part of the Americas track of the IE day and is scheduled for 5:00-7:00 pm (Berlin, Cape Town) / 4:00-6:00 pm (London) / 12:00 pm-2:00 pm (Rio) / 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (New York) / 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (UTC-5, Bogota) / 8:00-10:00 am (UTC-7, San Francisco) (Slot 9)

While materials and pollution can move freely across boundaries and borders (e.g., national/administrative, political, natural, physical, imaginary, or ethnical borders), a number of issues can hamper the understanding of transboundary urban and socio-economic metabolism. Issues can include: limited traceability associated with different systems for material/pollution monitoring and accounting; different policies and measures to allocate resources, and keep material flows accountable; a lack of information exchange across borders; uneven use and communication of data analytics; etc. 

This session highlights the use and array of urban and socio-economic metabolism interpretations across the spectrum along boundaries/borders. How can the use of metabolism studies be applied along neighboring regions? How can we quantify material, energy, and pollution along undefined system boundaries? As a result, how can we work towards a standard and transparent monitoring system (e.g., practical applications, data reporting, tools, etc.) that can be used by neighboring regions? 

This session will discuss urban metabolism applications to explore the foundations, limitations, and future research of urban metabolism along neighboring regions, leading to a discussion of the nexus between the complexities of city system boundaries. Topics include (but are not limited to):

(1) Data acquisition and accounting of transboundary material and pollution cycles (e.g., water and natural resources, pollutants and chemicals, recyclables, post-consumer/industrial waste, hazardous/medical waste);

(2) The role of technology innovation in advancing cross-border metabolism studies (e.g., real-time data monitoring, earth observation); 

(3) The role of policy and governance in advancing cross-border metabolism studies;

(4) Measuring, monitoring, modeling cross-border metabolism (e.g., resources and medicines flows, people movements) at the time of COVID-19. 

Organizers: This session is co-hosted by Dr. Gabriela Fernandez, based at the Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age, San Diego State University (San Diego, California), and Carol Maione, based at the Dept. Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnic University of Milan (Milan, Italy).

Deadline: May 25, 2021

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SLOT 9: Sustainability transformations of provisioning systems and the stock-flow-service nexus

This session is part of the Americas/Europe-Africa track of the IE day and is scheduled for 5:00-7:00 pm (Berlin, Cape Town) / 4:00-6:00 pm (London) / 12:00 pm-2:00 pm (Rio) / 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (New York) / 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (UTC-5, Bogota) / 8:00-10:00 am (UTC-7, San Francisco) (Slot 9)

The goal of this session is to discuss the latest research on the potentials and limitations of a sustainability transformation of the stock-flow-service nexus and provisioning systems, which are novel interdisciplinary conceptual approaches towards understanding and achieving sustainable resource use, emission reductions and the decoupling conundrum. The scope of this session is about drawing connections across scales between efforts in investigating the stock-flow-service nexus and research on the political economy of transformations and provisioning systems. Contributions could also include perspectives on choice architectures and physical infrastructures in reorganizing the provision of services that simultaneously improve wellbeing for all and reduce GHG emissions.

Organizers: Chaired and organised by Helmut Haberl and Dominik Wiedenhofer (University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Vienna)

Deadline: May 08, 2021

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