Systems thinking for life cycle sustainability assessment: A review of recent developments, applications, and future perspectives

NC Onat, M Kucukvar, A Halog, S Cloutier - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
Tracking the environmental impacts of production, use, and disposal of products (eg, goods,
and services) have been an important issue in the global economy. Although Life Cycle …

Industrial ecology in integrated assessment models

S Pauliuk, A Arvesen, K Stadler, EG Hertwich - Nature Climate Change, 2017 - nature.com
Technology-rich integrated assessment models (IAMs) address possible technology mixes
and future costs of climate change mitigation by generating scenarios for the future industrial …

[BUKU][B] Prosperity without growth: Foundations for the economy of tomorrow

T Jackson - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental and social limits? The
publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. Tim …

Carbon inequality in global trade: Evidence from the mismatch between embodied carbon emissions and value added

Y Wang, S **ong, X Ma - Ecological Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Global trade not only brings about the exchange of goods and services, but also stimulates
the transfer of carbon emissions. Given different economic development stages and …

Sustainable supply chain management and the transition towards a circular economy: Evidence and some applications

A Genovese, AA Acquaye, A Figueroa, SCL Koh - Omega, 2017 - Elsevier
In the last decades, green and sustainable supply chain management practices have been
developed, trying to integrate environmental concerns into organisations by reducing …

Environmental impact assessment of household consumption

D Ivanova, K Stadler, K Steen‐Olsen… - Journal of Industrial …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze the environmental impact of household consumption in terms of the material,
water, and land‐use requirements, as well as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, associated …

Consumption-based emission accounting for Chinese cities

Z Mi, Y Zhang, D Guan, Y Shan, Z Liu, R Cong… - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Most of China's CO 2 emissions are related to energy consumption in its cities. Thus, cities
are critical for implementing China's carbon emissions mitigation policies. In this study, we …

The material footprint of nations

TO Wiedmann, H Schandl, M Lenzen… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Metrics on resource productivity currently used by governments suggest that some
developed countries have increased the use of natural resources at a slower rate than …

Global land-water nexus: Agricultural land and freshwater use embodied in worldwide supply chains

B Chen, MY Han, K Peng, SL Zhou, L Shao… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
As agricultural land and freshwater inextricably interrelate and interact with each other, the
conventional water and land policy in “silos” should give way to nexus thinking when …

Building Eora: a global multi-region input–output database at high country and sector resolution

M Lenzen, D Moran, K Kanemoto… - Economic Systems …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
There are a number of initiatives aimed at compiling large-scale global multi-region input–
output (MRIO) tables complemented with non-monetary information such as on resource …