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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, […]

A dialogue with ChatGPT on stocks and flows
  • Industrial Ecology

A dialogue with ChatGPT on stocks and flows

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 7th April 2023
  • 2

Describing phenomena in a system definition is a basic step for understanding, assessing, and modelling […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Vergleichende Ökobilanz von Batterie- und Brennstoffzellen-PKWs
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Sustainable consumption

Vergleichende Ökobilanz von Batterie- und Brennstoffzellen-PKWs

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 31st July 2019
  • 0

Um es gleich vorwegzunehmen: Aussagen wie „Technologie xy ist nachhaltig.“ oder „besser für die Umwelt“ […]

Vom Appetit, fliegenden Früchten und dem Klimawandel
  • Sustainable consumption

Vom Appetit, fliegenden Früchten und dem Klimawandel

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 14th March 2019
  • 0

[English summary below] Essen ist längst mehr als nur satt werden – es ist eine […]

A note on the differences between process-based LCA and MRIO.
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Sustainable consumption

A note on the differences between process-based LCA and MRIO.

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 24th January 2018
  • 3

Process-based life cycle assessment (LCA) and monetary multiregional input-output (MRIO) models are widely applied to […]

Wie Nachhaltig ist die FreiburgCup?
  • Material Cycle
  • Sustainable consumption

Wie Nachhaltig ist die FreiburgCup?

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 17th June 2017
  • 0

Im November 2016 hat die Abfallwirtschaft und Stadtreinigung Freiburg GmbH (ASF) die FreiburgCup als Alternative […]

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