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Title Author Institution Year Section
Energy Metabolism of Canada, a temporal study from 1990-2011 Abdullah Toseef University of Waterloo 2017 Metabolism
Industrial Metabolism of Lead and Its Influence on National Economy Jiansu Mao Northeastern University, China 2003 Metabolism
New Hampshire’s Societal Metabolism: Material Flows and the Industry-Human-Nature Connection Deana Aulisio University of New Hampshire 2016 Metabolism
Socio-metabolic trade patterns: An investigation of concepts and methods Anke Schaffartzik Alpen-Adria Universitaet Klagenfurt-Graz-Wien 2015 Metabolism
The political economy of the industrial transformation of the United Kingdom. Work, society’s metabolism and socio-economic development Heinz Schandl University of Vienna 2001 Metabolism
The water metabolism of socio-ecosystems. Epistemology, methods and applications. Cristina Madrid Lopez Univertitat Autonoma Barcelona 2014 Metabolism
Weighing the Importance of Urban Built Environment Stocks for Sustainability. A Danish Case Study. Maud Lanau University of Southern Denmark, Department of Green Technology 2020 Metabolism

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Towards a Common Language and Data Structure for Resource Management

Daniel B. Mueller, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

 Socio-metabolic regimes and transitions between them

Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Institute for Social Ecology, Vienna

 SEM Perpetual Online Conference - Session 7: SEM and and resource inequality

The call for a decent life for all within planetary limits poses a dual challenge: Provide all people with the essential resources needed to live well and, collectively, to not exceed the source and sink capacity of the biosphere to sustain human societies. For socio-economic metabolism research, this means that beyond national averages of resource use, aspects of resource distribution must also be focused on. Resource use and associated greenhouse gas emissions are very unequally distributed across the population. Inequality often follows other existing dimensions of socioeconomic inequality (e.g., income, gender, race, disability), among others. This session addresses the challenges for population-stratified resource accounting and the resulting increasing demands on SEM research for interdisciplinarity with the political and social sciences.

  1. Diana Ivanova, Sustainability Research Institute at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds,
    Energy, carbon and inequality
  2. Joe F. Bozeman III, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy (IESP), ​University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC),
    Social Densification Phenomena and Food-Energy-Water Equity in the United States
  3. Ingram Jaccard, Social Metabolism and Impacts, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research (PIK),
    Achieving Paris and minimum standards of well-being in Europe requires less inequality
 SEM Perpetual Online Conference - Session 6: Towards Sustainable Material Stocks SEM Perpetual Online Conference - Session 2: Spatially explicit SEM research

Chair: Stefan Giljum / WU Vienna, Austria

Presenters:

Dan Moran / NTNU Trondheim, Norway: “From satellite to supply chains: connecting earth observation data to supply chain models”.

Victor Maus / WU Vienna, Austria: “Using earth observation data to map economic activities: the example of the global mining sector”.

Jing Guo / Nagoya University, Japan: “Urban development and sustainability challenges: 4d-GIS assessments of material flows and stocks of buildings in China”.

Neus Escobar / University of Bonn, Germany: “Mapping carbon emissions embodied in Brazil's soy exports with spatially explicit footprint approaches”.

 SEM Perpetual Online Conference - Session 1: SEM and COVID-19

Session 1 – July: SEM and Covid-19

Presenters:

Benjamin Sprecher, Leiden University “The impact of COVID-19 on the resource extraction sector: short term and structural effects”

Vered Blass, Tel Aviv University “Consumption and recycling behavior before and in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic: insights from Israeli survey and implications for future IE research”

Dominik Wiedenhofer and Helmut Haberl, Institute of Social Ecology “Lessons for crisis recovery from a systematic review of the evidence on decoupling”

 Science-Policy Interface in Material Flow Analysis: Lessons from Japanese and International Activities

Yuichi Moriguchi, The University of Tokyo

 2030: China's Green Development

Dajian Zhu, Tongji University in Shanghai