A Schaffartzik
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 29474 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Schaffartzik |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Schaffartzik |
| FIRMA | SCHAFFARTZIK A |
| AFILIACIONES | BOKU University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0284-6099 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 329 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Resilience and malleability
The world faces multiple crises and disruptions, such as climate impacts, pandemics, geopolitical tension and competition, conflicts, and wars. Socio-metabolic research (SMR), the study of stocks and flows of materials and energy associated with socioeconomic activities, is not well equipped to address these challenges. SMR methods are predominantly descriptive, static or linear. They treat disruptions as exogenous and are ill-equipped to capture…
Living well with the foundational economy
Changing, But Not in Decline
From the climate crisis to biodiversity loss, interrelated crises of society-nature relations are linked to global growth in resource use, extractive expansion, and unequal distribution. Next to critical research on the socioeconomic issues of (de)globalization, a sociometabolic perspective on the extraction and trade of material and energy resources is therefore needed. Material extraction has surged dramatically since 1970, tripling from 31 Gig…
Rising inequality
An interdisciplinary framework for navigating social–climatic tipping points
To effectively navigate out of the climate crisis, a new interdisciplinary approach is needed to guide and facilitate research that integrates diverse understandings of how transitions evolve in intertwined social–environmental systems. The concept of tipping points, frequently used in the natural sciences and increasingly in the social sciences, can help elucidate processes underlying major social–environmental transitions. We develop the notion…
From planetary to societal boundaries
The planetary boundaries concept has profoundly changed the vocabulary and representation of global environmental issues. We bring a critical social science perspective to this framework through the notion of societal boundaries and aim to provide a more nuanced understanding of the social nature of thresholds. We start by highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of planetary boundaries from a social science perspective. We then focus on capital…
Do material efficiency improvements backfire
To keep global heating and other negative consequences of socioeconomic activities within manageable boundaries, industrialized countries must undergo substantial decarbonization, requiring the exploitation of synergies with other environmental endeavors. Improving resource efficiency—that is, reducing the resources required to generate a unit of economic output—is a prominent goal pursued across levels of scale. How does resource efficiency rela…
The transformation of provisioning systems from an integrated perspective of social metabolism and political economy
Energy, food, or mobility can be conceptualized as provisioning systems which are decisive to sustainability transformations in how they shape resource use and because of emissions resulting from them. To curb environmental pressures and improve societal well-being, fundamental changes to existing provisioning systems are necessary. In this article, we propose that provisioning systems be conceptualized as featuring integrated socio-metabolic and…
Surge in global metal mining threatens vulnerable ecosystems
Mining activities induce profound changes to societies and the environment they inhabit. With global extraction of metal ores doubling over the past two decades, pressures related to mining have dramatically increased. In this paper, we explore where growing global metal extraction has particularly taken effect. Using fine-grain data, we investigate the spatial and temporal distribution of mining of nine metal ores (bauxite, copper, gold, iron, l…
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II
Strategies toward ambitious climate targets usually rely on the concept of ‘decoupling’; that is, they aim at promoting economic growth while reducing the use of natural resources and GHG emissions. GDP growth coinciding with absolute reductions in emissions or resource use is denoted as ‘absolute decoupling’, as opposed to ‘relative decoupling’, where resource use or emissions increase less so than does GDP. Based on the bibliometric mapping in …
Ökologisch ungleicher Tausch
Die wachstumsgeleitete ‚Entwicklung‘, die derzeit trotz verheerender ökologischer und sozialer Konsequenzen verfolgt wird, ist abhängig von ökologischer Ungleichheit. Als ökologisch ungleicher Tausch erlaubt der Außenhandel die Ausdehnung des ökologischen Handlungsspielraums einiger weniger, während er für viele andere deren Einengung bedeutet. Das erst ermöglicht weiteres globales Wachstum und verschärft dabei gleichzeitig bestehende Ungleichhei…
Supply versus use designs of environmental extensions in input–output analysis
Input–output analysis is one of the central methodological pillars of industrial ecology. However, the literature that discusses different structures of environmental extensions (EEs), that is, the scope of physical flows and their attribution to sectors in the monetary input–output table (MIOT), remains fragmented. This article investigates the conceptual and empirical implications of applying two different but frequently used designs of EEs, us…
Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange
Talk renewables, walk coal
Scrutinizing the Great Acceleration
Despite considerable advancements over the last couple of years, research on the Anthropocene still faces at least two challenges: (1) integrating different approaches from natural, social and cultural sciences, and (2) clarifying the political relevance of this concept. To address these challenges, we propose an interdisciplinary approach from Social Ecology and Political Economy which combines research on social metabolism with a historical app…
Global appropriation of resources causes high international material inequality – Growth is not the solution
Hidden emissions of forest transitions
Achieving a global forest transition, that is, a shift from net deforestation to reforestation, is essential for climate change mitigation. However, both land-based climate change mitigation policy and research on forest transitions neglect key processes that relieve pressure from forests, but cause emissions elsewhere (‘hidden emissions’). Here, we identify three major causes of hidden emissions of forest transitions, that is, emissions from agr…
A socio-metabolic perspective on environmental justice and degrowth movements
Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity
The international industrial ecology (IE) research community and United Nations (UN) Environment have, for the first time, agreed on an authoritative and comprehensive data set for global material extraction and trade covering 40 years of global economic activity and natural resource use. This new data set is becoming the standard information source for decision making at the UN in the context of the post‐2015 development agenda, which acknowledg…
Sustainable Palm Oil? Insights from Material Flow and Land Use Analysis in Brazil’s Production Hotspot
Near-ubiquitous in global consumption, palm oil is increasingly connoted with the detrimental environmental and social impacts of its production. Focusing on the production hotspot Pará,, Brazil, our study questions the success of the Brazilian national program for sustainable palm oil production.Negative impacts of plantation agriculture were widely recognized when the expansion of palm oil production began in Brazil. In 2010, president Lula da …
Drivers of society-nature relations in the Anthropocene and their implications for sustainability transformations
Metabolic Inequality and Its Impact on Efficient Contraction and Convergence of International Material Resource Use
How Far Does the European Union Reach? Analyzing Embodied HANPP
Long-Term Trends in Global Material and Energy Use
More Than the Sum of Its Parts
Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange
Talk renewables, walk coal
Contested territorialization and biophysical expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia
The global metabolic transition
Since the World War II, many economies have transitioned from an agrarian, biomass-based to an industrial, minerals-based metabolic regime. Since 1950, world population grew by factor 2.7 and global material consumption by factor 3.7-71 Gigatonnes per year in 2010. The expansion of the resource base required by human societies is associated with growing pressure on the environment and infringement on the habitats of other species. In order to ach…
Surge in global metal mining threatens vulnerable ecosystems
Mining activities induce profound changes to societies and the environment they inhabit. With global extraction of metal ores doubling over the past two decades, pressures related to mining have dramatically increased. In this paper, we explore where growing global metal extraction has particularly taken effect. Using fine-grain data, we investigate the spatial and temporal distribution of mining of nine metal ores (bauxite, copper, gold, iron, l…
Scrutinizing the Great Acceleration
Despite considerable advancements over the last couple of years, research on the Anthropocene still faces at least two challenges: (1) integrating different approaches from natural, social and cultural sciences, and (2) clarifying the political relevance of this concept. To address these challenges, we propose an interdisciplinary approach from Social Ecology and Political Economy which combines research on social metabolism with a historical app…
Using embodied HANPP to analyze teleconnections in the global land system
Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 109(2):119–130, 2009 In our rapidly globalizing world economy activities in one region have increasingly important effects on ecological, economic or social processes elsewhere, an effect which we here denote as ‘teleconnections’ between different regions. Biomass trade, one of the causes behind such teleconnections, is currently growing exponentially. Integrated analyses of changes in the global …
Drivers of society-nature relations in the Anthropocene and their implications for sustainability transformations
Hidden emissions of forest transitions
Achieving a global forest transition, that is, a shift from net deforestation to reforestation, is essential for climate change mitigation. However, both land-based climate change mitigation policy and research on forest transitions neglect key processes that relieve pressure from forests, but cause emissions elsewhere (‘hidden emissions’). Here, we identify three major causes of hidden emissions of forest transitions, that is, emissions from agr…
Global patterns of metal extractivism, 1950–2010
Metabolic Inequality and Its Impact on Efficient Contraction and Convergence of International Material Resource Use
The transformation of provisioning systems from an integrated perspective of social metabolism and political economy
Energy, food, or mobility can be conceptualized as provisioning systems which are decisive to sustainability transformations in how they shape resource use and because of emissions resulting from them. To curb environmental pressures and improve societal well-being, fundamental changes to existing provisioning systems are necessary. In this article, we propose that provisioning systems be conceptualized as featuring integrated socio-metabolic and…
A socio-metabolic perspective on environmental justice and degrowth movements
Living well with the foundational economy
Rising inequality
Global effects of national biomass production and consumption
Global trade of biomass-related products is growing exponentially, resulting in increasing 'teleconnections' between producing and consuming regions. Sustainable management of the earth's lands requires indicators to monitor these connections across regions and scales. The 'embodied human appropriation of NPP' (eHANPP) allows one to consistently attribute the HANPP resulting from production chains to consumers. HANPP is the sum of land-use induce…
Changing, But Not in Decline
From the climate crisis to biodiversity loss, interrelated crises of society-nature relations are linked to global growth in resource use, extractive expansion, and unequal distribution. Next to critical research on the socioeconomic issues of (de)globalization, a sociometabolic perspective on the extraction and trade of material and energy resources is therefore needed. Material extraction has surged dramatically since 1970, tripling from 31 Gig…
Using embodied HANPP to analyze teleconnections in the global land system
Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 109(2):119–130, 2009 In our rapidly globalizing world economy activities in one region have increasingly important effects on ecological, economic or social processes elsewhere, an effect which we here denote as ‘teleconnections’ between different regions. Biomass trade, one of the causes behind such teleconnections, is currently growing exponentially. Integrated analyses of changes in the global …
Global effects of national biomass production and consumption
Global trade of biomass-related products is growing exponentially, resulting in increasing 'teleconnections' between producing and consuming regions. Sustainable management of the earth's lands requires indicators to monitor these connections across regions and scales. The 'embodied human appropriation of NPP' (eHANPP) allows one to consistently attribute the HANPP resulting from production chains to consumers. HANPP is the sum of land-use induce…
Consumption‐based Material Flow Accounting
In 2007, imports accounted for approximately 34% of the material input (domestic extraction and imports) into the Austrian economy and almost 60% of the GDP stemmed from exports. Upstream material inputs into the production of traded goods, however, are not yet included in the standard framework of material flow accounting (MFA). We have reviewed different approaches accounting for these upstream material inputs, or raw material equivalents (RME)…
Ukraine and the great biofuel potential? A political material flow analysis
Cropland area embodied in international trade
The global metabolic transition
Since the World War II, many economies have transitioned from an agrarian, biomass-based to an industrial, minerals-based metabolic regime. Since 1950, world population grew by factor 2.7 and global material consumption by factor 3.7-71 Gigatonnes per year in 2010. The expansion of the resource base required by human societies is associated with growing pressure on the environment and infringement on the habitats of other species. In order to ach…
Material Flow Analysis
What Drives Austrian Raw Material Consumption
The growth in Austria's raw material consumption (RMC) or material footprint is driven by changes in consumption and production. In using the tool of structural decomposition analysis and applying it to Austrian RMC between 1995 and 2007, three specific drivers (technology, composition, and volume of final demand) are identified and quantified. The overall growth of Austrian RMC across the period of time under investigation shows that neither imp…
Trading Land
Land use is recognized as a pervasive driver of environmental impacts, including climate change and biodiversity loss. Global trade leads to “telecoupling” between the land use of production and the consumption of biomass‐based goods and services. Telecoupling is captured by accounts of the upstream land requirements associated with traded products, also commonly referred to as land footprints. These accounts face challenges in two main areas: (1…
Contested territorialization and biophysical expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia
How Far Does the European Union Reach? Analyzing Embodied HANPP
Long-Term Trends in Global Material and Energy Use
More Than the Sum of Its Parts
Boundary Issues
Consumption-based material flow indicators — Comparing six ways of calculating the Austrian raw material consumption providing six results
Global patterns of metal extractivism, 1950–2010
Sustainable Palm Oil? Insights from Material Flow and Land Use Analysis in Brazil’s Production Hotspot
Near-ubiquitous in global consumption, palm oil is increasingly connoted with the detrimental environmental and social impacts of its production. Focusing on the production hotspot Pará,, Brazil, our study questions the success of the Brazilian national program for sustainable palm oil production.Negative impacts of plantation agriculture were widely recognized when the expansion of palm oil production began in Brazil. In 2010, president Lula da …
Drivers of society-nature relations in the Anthropocene and their implications for sustainability transformations
Metabolic Inequality and Its Impact on Efficient Contraction and Convergence of International Material Resource Use
Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity
The international industrial ecology (IE) research community and United Nations (UN) Environment have, for the first time, agreed on an authoritative and comprehensive data set for global material extraction and trade covering 40 years of global economic activity and natural resource use. This new data set is becoming the standard information source for decision making at the UN in the context of the post‐2015 development agenda, which acknowledg…
Global appropriation of resources causes high international material inequality – Growth is not the solution
Hidden emissions of forest transitions
Achieving a global forest transition, that is, a shift from net deforestation to reforestation, is essential for climate change mitigation. However, both land-based climate change mitigation policy and research on forest transitions neglect key processes that relieve pressure from forests, but cause emissions elsewhere (‘hidden emissions’). Here, we identify three major causes of hidden emissions of forest transitions, that is, emissions from agr…
A socio-metabolic perspective on environmental justice and degrowth movements
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II
Strategies toward ambitious climate targets usually rely on the concept of ‘decoupling’; that is, they aim at promoting economic growth while reducing the use of natural resources and GHG emissions. GDP growth coinciding with absolute reductions in emissions or resource use is denoted as ‘absolute decoupling’, as opposed to ‘relative decoupling’, where resource use or emissions increase less so than does GDP. Based on the bibliometric mapping in …
Ökologisch ungleicher Tausch
Die wachstumsgeleitete ‚Entwicklung‘, die derzeit trotz verheerender ökologischer und sozialer Konsequenzen verfolgt wird, ist abhängig von ökologischer Ungleichheit. Als ökologisch ungleicher Tausch erlaubt der Außenhandel die Ausdehnung des ökologischen Handlungsspielraums einiger weniger, während er für viele andere deren Einengung bedeutet. Das erst ermöglicht weiteres globales Wachstum und verschärft dabei gleichzeitig bestehende Ungleichhei…
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