Technology-rich integrated assessment models (IAMs) address possible technology mixes
and future costs of climate change mitigation by generating scenarios for the future industrial …

Purpose Multifunctionality in life-cycle assessment (LCA) is solved with allocation, for which
many different procedures are available. Lack of sufficient guidance and difficulties to …

Ecologically unequal exchange theory posits asymmetric net flows of biophysical resources
from poorer to richer countries. To date, empirical evidence to support this theoretical notion …

To assess the potential environmental impact of human/industrial systems, life cycle
assessment (LCA) is a very common method. There are two prominent types of LCA, namely …

Detailed and comprehensive accounts of waste generation and treatment form the
quantitative basis of designing and assessing policy instruments for a circular economy …

In this paper, we take an overview of several of the biggest independently constructed global
multi-regional input–output (MRIO) databases and ask how reliable and consonant these …

Harvested biomass is linked to final consumption by networks of processes and actors that
convert and distribute food and nonfood goods. Achieving a sustainable resource …

The climate mitigation benefits of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) relative to internal
combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) are highly dependent on the carbon intensity of the …

Substantial amounts of post-consumer scrap are exported to other regions or lost during
recovery and remelting, and both export and losses pose a constraint to desires for having …

Abstract The European Union (EU) set ambitious goals toward more sustainable use of
plastics, but the basis for measuring performance and monitoring progress toward these …