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2025 IEDC critical mass sprint
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2025 IEDC critical mass sprint

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 3rd March 2025
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2025 is the year when we move the industrial ecology data commons prototype, launched in […]

Socio-Economic Metabolism – An Overview
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle

Socio-Economic Metabolism – An Overview

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 30th October 2024
  • 1

Materials are at the basis of human society [1]. Urbanization, industrialization and growing consumption drive […]

How much materials are needed to provide a decent living for all?
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle

How much materials are needed to provide a decent living for all?

  • Johan_V
  • 18th September 2023
  • 0

Alongside climate change, eradicating poverty and hunger, reducing inequalities, and increasing access to basic needs, […]

How will a sustainable circular economy look like?
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle
  • Science
  • Sustainable consumption

How will a sustainable circular economy look like?

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 1st June 2023
  • 0

Sustainability, with its environmental, social, and economic dimension, needs to be made tangible and operational […]

Material Footprint Implications of Low-Carbon Technologies
  • Material Cycle
  • Sustainable consumption

Material Footprint Implications of Low-Carbon Technologies

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 30th October 2022
  • 1

Energy scarcity and material abundance characterize the current global economy. Demand for energy services in […]

Scientists Urge to Integrate Energy-Metal Nexus into Carbon Neutrality Pledges
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle

Scientists Urge to Integrate Energy-Metal Nexus into Carbon Neutrality Pledges

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 18th June 2022
  • 0

Carbon neutrality requires systematic transformations and revolutions of both energy and metal systems. Countries, cities, […]

Material flow accounting and material footprints: System definition and data sources
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle
  • Sustainable consumption

Material flow accounting and material footprints: System definition and data sources

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 20th April 2022
  • 0

Material flow accounting (MFA) (Fischer-Kowalski et al. 2011) is a method to systematically compile data […]

Studie zu Materialverbrauch, Energiebedarf und Klimaauswirkungen des geplanten Stadtteils „Dietenbach“ in Freiburg
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle

Studie zu Materialverbrauch, Energiebedarf und Klimaauswirkungen des geplanten Stadtteils „Dietenbach“ in Freiburg

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 17th March 2022
  • 2

Klimawandel und Wohnungsmangel machen die Untersuchung der Klimaauswirkungen von Neubauprojekten zu einem wichtigen Thema. Der […]

Direct air capture of CO2 – A potential building block but not a wildcard
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle

Direct air capture of CO2 – A potential building block but not a wildcard

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 1st November 2021
  • 0

As I am writing these lines, the supposed climate leaders of the world meet at […]

New Guidelines for Data Modeling and Data Integration for Material Flow Analysis
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle
  • Science

New Guidelines for Data Modeling and Data Integration for Material Flow Analysis

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 9th June 2021
  • 0

Material flow analysis (MFA) is booming. A large number of datasets are being compiled and […]

Short lifetime of metals in the anthroposphere illustrates the challenge of closing material cycles
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle
  • Sustainable consumption

Short lifetime of metals in the anthroposphere illustrates the challenge of closing material cycles

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 7th February 2021
  • 0

“Metals can be recycled indefinitely.” That marketing phrase of the metal producers sounds plausible, as […]

Warum ist es so wichtig, Plastikverpackungen zu vermeiden?
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle
  • Sustainable consumption

Warum ist es so wichtig, Plastikverpackungen zu vermeiden?

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 13th January 2021
  • 1

Das frage ich mich allerdings auch! Eine Journalistikstudentin stellte mir diese Frage für ein Feature […]

Ist weniger mehr? Wie wir den Klimawandel bremsen können, indem wir Materialien besser nutzen.
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle
  • Sustainable consumption

Ist weniger mehr? Wie wir den Klimawandel bremsen können, indem wir Materialien besser nutzen.

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 18th November 2020
  • 0

Klimafreundliche Technologien und Lebensstile? Na logo: Elektroautos, Passivhäuser, Solarzellen auf dem Dach, weniger Fleisch, mehr […]

Introducing ODYM-RECC – A community model for circular economy and material efficiency assessments
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle

Introducing ODYM-RECC – A community model for circular economy and material efficiency assessments

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 11th December 2019
  • 3

The UNEP International Resource Panel Report (IRP) report on “RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND CLIMATE CHANGE – […]

Launching the prototype of an Industrial Ecology Data Inventory
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  • Material Cycle
  • Science

Launching the prototype of an Industrial Ecology Data Inventory

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 17th October 2018
  • 2

Re-using data and results from other peoples’ research is crucial to consistent and cumulative research, […]

Joint seminar with Vered Blass and Weiqian Chen
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  • Material Cycle
  • Sustainable consumption

Joint seminar with Vered Blass and Weiqian Chen

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 30th September 2018
  • 0

The August edition of the ‘Freiburg Talks on Environment and Society’ featured a combined talk […]

Seminar “Mining and Industrial Ecology” with Stephen Northey
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  • Material Cycle

Seminar “Mining and Industrial Ecology” with Stephen Northey

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 20th February 2018
  • 0

Tuesday, February 20, 4-5 p.m. Herderbau, R200. The mining industry provides many of the raw […]

The Circular Economy: Breakthrough or Distraction?
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle
  • Science

The Circular Economy: Breakthrough or Distraction?

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 15th December 2017
  • 0

Our material footprint is expanding (Wiedmann et al., 2015), in-use stocks are growing (Müller et […]

Launching of the CircularSankey web application
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle

Launching of the CircularSankey web application

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 11th December 2017
  • 0

Sankey diagrams are an important visualisation tool but drawing them is a tedious job. There […]

Growth of in-use stocks: Central obstacle to closing material cycles
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle
  • Sustainable consumption

Growth of in-use stocks: Central obstacle to closing material cycles

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 13th November 2017
  • 0

Recycling, re-use, and remanufacturing are central sustainable development strategies. In most cases, they save both: […]

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