A5009546687- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Extraction and Separation Processes
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Sustainable Industrial Ecology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Mining and Resource Management
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Engineering and Materials Science Studies
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Material Science and Thermodynamics
- Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
- Transport and Economic Policies
- Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
Leiden University
2022-2024
Reichman University
2018-2022
Yale University
2017-2019
Center for Environmental Health
2018-2019
Nagoya University
2014-2017
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2015
Significance A large part of all primary materials extracted globally accumulates in stocks manufactured capital, including buildings, infrastructure, machinery, and equipment. These in-use provide important services for society the economy drive long-term demand energy. Configuration quantity determine future waste flows recycling potential are key to closing material loops reducing emissions a circular economy. better understanding their dynamics is essential sustainable development. We...
As one quarter of global energy use serves the production materials, more efficient these materials presents a significant opportunity for mitigation greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With renewed interest policy makers in circular economy, material efficiency (ME) strategies such as light-weighting and downsizing lifetime extension products, reuse recycling appropriate choice are being promoted. Yet, emissions savings from ME remain poorly understood, owing part to multitude uses diversity...
Summary The international industrial ecology (IE) research community and United Nations (UN) Environment have, for the first time, agreed on an authoritative comprehensive data set global material extraction trade covering 40 years of economic activity natural resource use. This new is becoming standard information source decision making at UN in context post‐2015 development agenda, which acknowledges strong links between sustainable management, prosperity, human well‐being. Only if growth...
Summary In order to fully comprehend the socioeconomic metabolic (SEM) dynamics and material balance of nations, long‐term accounting economy‐wide stock is necessary in parallel flow accounts. Nevertheless, accounts have been scarce, isolated, mostly focused either on single materials, short time spans, or small regions. This study has two objectives: (1) review state art research SEM discourse (2) present a project map, high level detail, in‐use construction stocks Japan its 47 prefectures...
Abstract Material production accounts for a quarter of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Resource-efficiency and circular-economy strategies, both industry demand-focused, promise emission reductions through reducing material use, but detailed assessments their GHG reduction potential are lacking. We present global-scale analysis efficiency passenger vehicles residential buildings. estimate future changes in flows energy use due to increased yields, light design, substitution, extended...
Assessing progress towards environmental sustainability requires a robust and systematic knowledge base. Economy-wide material flow accounting (ew-MFA) is an established method to monitor resource use across scales its headline indicators are widely used in policy. However, ew-MFA currently limited by empirical focus on annual flows of energy, because it neglects the pivotal role in-use stocks manufactured capital. Explicitly integrating enables new insights into range Ecological Economics'...
Summary National material stock (MS) accounts have been a neglected field of analysis in industrial ecology, possibly because the difficulty establishing such accounts. In this research, we propose novel method to model national MS based on historical flow data. This enables us avoid laborious data work involved with bottom‐up for stocks and arrive at plausible levels accumulation nations. We apply United States Japan establish proof concept two very different cases development. Looking...
Summary Despite accounting for almost 50% of global material use, nonmetallic minerals—mostly used construction buildings and infrastructure—are the flow analysis (MFA) category with highest uncertainty. The main reason this is incomplete reporting in official national statistics because ease availability low per‐unit cost these materials. However, environmental burden associated minerals, which include energy use extraction transport, land‐use change, disposal large amounts demolition...
Urbanization and population growth have contributed to a tripling of building material consumption from 2000 2017. Building materials range environmental impacts throughout their life cycle, extraction, processing, transport raw construction, use, eventual demolition waste. Mitigation measures that target specific or value chain stages may therefore incremental even adverse net effects. In this perspective, we develop framework for applying cycle thinking identify key corresponding...
The dynamics of societal material stocks such as buildings and infrastructures their spatial patterns drive surging resource use emissions. Two main types data are currently used to map stocks, night-time lights (NTL) from Earth-observing (EO) satellites cadastral information. We present an alternative approach for broad-scale stock mapping based on freely available high-resolution EO imagery OpenStreetMap data. Maps built-up surface area, building height, were derived optical Sentinel-2...
Abstract The data record contains Material Intensity for buildings (MI). MI coefficients are often used different types of analysis socio-economic systems and in particular environmental assessments. Until now, values were compiled reported ad-hoc with few cross-study comparisons. We extracted converted more than 300 material intensity points from 33 studies provide the results a comprehensive harmonized database. is as kilograms per gross floor area 32 materials primary points. Furthermore,...
Material stocks in infrastructure, buildings and machinery shape current future resource use emissions. Analyses of specific countries selected materials suggest that material might saturate, which would be important for a more sustainable social metabolism. However, it is unclear to what extent the evidence holds wider range flows, as well world regions or globally. We present an inflow-driven dynamic stock-flow model 14 bulk materials, end-of-life outflows, recycling, waste flows nine from...
Scenario-based assessments are a useful tool to explore unknown futures and inform decision makers the public of consequences different courses action. Scenario developments in industrial ecology have focused on disparate components socioeconomic metabolism case studies, few efforts comprehensive cumulative scenario formulation documented. Many important, empirically derived relationships between material cycles, end-use services, energy use relevant global modeling efforts, for example,...
Re-use and recycling in the construction sector is essential to keep resource use check. Data availability about material contents of buildings significant challenge for planning future re-use potentials. Compiling intensity (MI) data time intensive. Often studies end up with only a handful datapoints. In order adequately cover diversity materials found cities, accurately assess stocks at detailed spatial scopes, many more MI datapoints are needed. this work, we present database on Dutch...