Impacts of riverine sand mining on freshwater ecosystems: A review of the scientific evidence and guidance for future research

L Koehnken, MS Rintoul, M Goichot… - River Research and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sand mining (used here as a generic term that includes mining of any riverine aggregates
regardless of particle size) is a global activity that is receiving increasing media attention …

How do we best synergize climate mitigation actions to co‐benefit biodiversity?

P Smith, A Arneth, DKA Barnes, K Ichii… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A multitude of actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural and modified
ecosystems can have co‐benefits for both climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation …

A pantropical assessment of deforestation caused by industrial mining

S Giljum, V Maus, N Kuschnig… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Growing demand for minerals continues to drive deforestation worldwide. Tropical forests
are particularly vulnerable to the environmental impacts of mining and mineral processing …

A looming tragedy of the sand commons

A Torres, J Brandt, K Lear, J Liu - Science, 2017 - science.org
Between 1900 and 2010, the global volume of natural resources used in buildings and
transport infrastructure increased 23-fold (1). Sand and gravel are the largest portion of …

Sand, gravel, and UN Sustainable Development Goals: Conflicts, synergies, and pathways forward

M Bendixen, LL Iversen, J Best, DM Franks… - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
Sand, gravel, and crushed stone are the most mined materials on Earth. Aggregates
constitute the foundation for modern civilization and are essential for providing shelter …

Towards a more circular construction sector: Estimating and spatialising current and future non-structural material replacement flows to maintain urban building stocks

A Stephan, A Athanassiadis - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2018 - Elsevier
Humans are extracting and consuming unprecedented quantities of materials from the
earth's crust. The construction sector and the built environment are major drivers of this …

[책][B] Nature, society, and justice in the anthropocene: Unraveling the money-energy-technology complex

A Hornborg, A Hornborg - 2019 - books.google.com
Are money and technology the core illusions of our time? In this book, Alf Hornborg offers a
fresh assessment of the inequalities and environmental degradation of the world. He shows …

The material stock–flow–service nexus: A new approach for tackling the decoupling conundrum

H Haberl, D Wiedenhofer, KH Erb, C Görg… - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
Fundamental changes in the societal use of biophysical resources are required for a
sustainability transformation. Current socioeconomic metabolism research traces flows of …

Decarbonizing the cementitious materials cycle: A whole‐systems review of measures to decarbonize the cement supply chain in the UK and European contexts

S Pamenter, RJ Myers - Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a semi‐quantitative review of measures to achieve net‐zero
greenhouse gas emissions (“decarbonization”) in the cementitious materials (CMs) cycle …

Life cycle assessment of carbon dioxide–based production of methane and methanol and derived polymers

W Hoppe, N Thonemann… - Journal of Industrial …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies showed that using carbon dioxide (CO2) as a raw material for chemical
syntheses may provide an opportunity for achieving greenhouse gas (GHG) savings and a …