Fridolin Krausmann

Biographic Data

ID118085
NAMEFridolin Krausmann
GIVEN NAMESFridolin
FAMILY NAMEKrausmann
SIGNATUREKRAUSMANN F
AFFILIATIONSBOKU University
ORCID0000-0002-9995-2372
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS104
TOTAL CITATIONS571
AUTHOR COUNT103
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX14

  • Material and carbon implications of future mobility infrastructure expansion around the world

    Open AccessAndré Baumgart, Gamze Ünlü et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2026

    Global mobility infrastructure is expected to expand significantly, especially in the Global South, potentially requiring a substantial share of the remaining carbon budget. However, the resource use and carbon emissions associated with the anticipated expansion of roads, railways, and other mobility infrastructure, as well as the potential of mitigation measures, have so far not been explored systematically. Using high-resolution infrastructure …

  • Designing Memme – A conceptual material and energy metabolism model for economies

    Open AccessLaura Felício, Fridolin Krausmann et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2026

    Energy and materials drive the socioeconomic processes of the economy, acquiring economic value through physical and chemical transformations. Consequently, understanding an economy requires analyzing not only its monetary flows but also its biophysical flows and stocks. However, integrating material and energy perspectives into a unified analytical framework remains a challenge that existing approaches have only partially addressed. This study i…

  • Resilience and malleability: New directions for socio-metabolic research in times of multiple crises

    Open AccessH Haberl, Stefan Giljum et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2026

    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…

  • Resource use and resource efficiency in the Asia–Pacific region revisited

    Open AccessJonathan P West, James West et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2026References: 5

  • Small increases in material stocks to achieve decent living standards globally

    Open AccessJan Streeck, Johan Andrés Vélez-Henao et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2025References: 16

    Global inequalities in resource use leave billions below decent living standards (DLS)—a proposal of universal minimum service levels required to meet essential human needs. Although research has examined the energy use and greenhouse gas emission implications of achieving universal DLS, little is known about the necessary expansion of societies’ material stocks in buildings, infrastructure and machinery. Here we estimate that closing global DLS …

  • From extraction to end‐uses and waste management: Modeling economy‐wide material cycles and stock dynamics around the world

    Open AccessDominik Wiedenhofer, Jan Streeck et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2024

    Material stocks of infrastructure, buildings, and machinery are the biophysical basis of production and consumption. They are a crucial lever for resource efficiency and a sustainable circular economy. While material stock research has proliferated over the last years, most studies investigated specific materials or end‐uses, usually not embedded into an economy‐wide perspective. Herein, we present a novel version of the economy‐wide, dynamic, in…

  • Spatial patterns of built structures co‐determine nations’ level of resource demand

    Open AccessJuan Antonio Duro, Alejandro Perez-Laborda et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2024

    Societies’ use of material resources is increasingly recognized as a key factor behind sustainability problems. The mass of materials used per capita and year differs substantially between countries. However, a limited range of variables (mostly per‐capita gross domestic product [GDP]) were analyzed to explain this variation. Spatial patterns of cities influence their resource use, but the role of patterns of settlements and infrastructures as co…

  • Global material flows and resource productivity: The 2024 update

    Open AccessHeinz Schandl, Raymundo Marcos-Martinez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2024

    Accurate assessments of global primary material extraction, trade of primary materials and products, material use, waste, and emissions support the development of policies that facilitate the decoupling of economic activity, natural resource use, and related environmental impacts. Here, we quantify all crucial aspects of global and country‐by‐country material requirements needed to fuel economic activities, covering both territorial‐ and demand‐b…

  • Livestock increasingly drove global agricultural emissions growth from 1910–2015

    Open AccessGingrich, Michaela C Theurl et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Emissions from agricultural activities constitute 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions and are hard to abate. Here, we present and analyze a consistent empirical assessment of global emissions from agricultural activities from 1910–2015. Agricultural emissions increased 3.5-fold from 1910–2015, from 1.9 to 6.7 GtCO 2 eq yr −1 . CH 4 emissions, emissions from enteric fermentation and from livestock products contributed the highest fractions of e…

  • The evolution of biomass flows in Bangladesh (1961–2019): Providing insights for Bangladesh's transition to a sustainable circular bioeconomy

    Open AccessAfra Bashira Binth Arman, Fridolin Krausmann et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2023

    The transition toward a circular bioeconomy requires policy directives based on comprehensive research on biomass in the context of region‐specific economic, societal, and environmental realities. Bangladesh, a densely populated country with an agrarian economy morphing rapidly into an industrial one, needs a critical evaluation of its biomass metabolism to enable local and global policy stakeholders in setting rational biomass‐associated targets…

  • Great transformations: Social revolutions erupted during energy transitions around the world, 1500–2013

    Open AccessMarina Fischer-Kowalski, Fridolin Krausmann et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2023References: 11

    Over the past 500 years, the transition to fossil fuels has been accompanied by sociopolitical upheaval, revolution, and counterrevolution in countries around the world. Previous research found that social revolutions occurred during energy transitions in a limited sample of 38 countries. This research expanded the investigation to examine the relationship between shifts in the energy base of societies and transformative sociopolitical change in …

  • Diverse types of knowledge on a plate: A multi-perspective and multi-method approach for the transformation of urban food systems towards sustainable diets

    Open AccessMarta López Cifuentes, Marianne Penker et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2023Cited by: 4References: 14

    Urbanization processes are accompanied by growing global challenges for food systems. Urban actors are increasingly striving to address these challenges through a focus on sustainable diets. However, transforming food systems towards more sustainable diets is challenging and it is unclear what the local scope of action might be. Co-production of knowledge between science and non-science is particularly useful for analysing context-specific soluti…

  • Biomass from somewhere?” Governing the spatial mismatch of Viennese biomass consumption and its impact on biodiversity

    Open AccessChristina Plank, C Görg et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2023Cited by: 2References: 69

    Vienna’s biomass demand is large and nearly all biomass consumed in the city is produced in the regional and global hinterland. This raises the question, how the socioecological conditions at specific places somewhere in the world are impacted by urban consumption and how negative impacts can be addressed and mitigated by urban actors. Here we focus on the city’s biodiversity footprint and argue that the spatial mismatch between the social-ecolog…

  • How much infrastructure is required to support decent mobility for all? An exploratory assessment

    Open AccessDoris Virág, Dominik Wiedenhofer et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2022Cited by: 11References: 8

    Decarbonizing transport is crucial for achieving climate targets, which is challenging because mobility is growing rapidly. Personal mobility is a key societal service and basic need, but currently not available to everyone with sufficient quality and quantity. The basis for mobility and accessibility of desired destinations is infrastructure, but its build-up and maintenance require a substantial fraction of global resource use. The question ari…

  • How the European recovery program (ERP) drove France's petroleum dependency, 1948–1975

    Open AccessRobert A Gro, Robert Gro et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Innovation and…2022Cited by: 6References: 49

  • The role of socio‐economic material stocks for natural resource use in the United States of America from 1870 to 2100

    Open AccessJan Streeck, Quirin Dammerer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2021

    Globally, more than half of all extracted materials are used to build and maintain material stocks. The United States of America (USA) is one of the largest global consumers of these materials. To assess the role of stocks for long-term material use in an affluent industrialized economy, we present an analysis of material use and stock accumulation for the USA from 1870 to 2100. On the basis of the dynamics of stocks and resulting end-of-life (Eo…

  • Prospects for a saturation of humanity’s resource use? An analysis of material stocks and flows in nine world regions from 1900 to 2035

    Open AccessDominik Wiedenhofer, Tomer Fishman et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2021Cited by: 5References: 17

    Material stocks in infrastructure, buildings and machinery shape current and future resource use and emissions. Analyses of specific countries and selected materials suggest that material stocks might saturate, which would be important for a more sustainable social metabolism. However, it is unclear to what extent the evidence holds for a wider range of stocks and flows, as well as for world regions or globally. We present an inflow-driven dynami…

  • The effect of industrialization and globalization on domestic land-use: A global resource footprint perspective

    Open AccessChristian Dorninger, Henrik Von Wehrden et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2021Cited by: 6References: 10

  • Tracing Austria's biomass consumption to source countries: A product-level comparison between bioenergy, food and material

    Open AccessGerald Kalt, Lisa Kaufmann et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2021Cited by: 4References: 4

    Global biomass trade has risen sharply in recent decades. This development was accompanied by increasing concerns about adverse environmental impacts in exporting countries. In Austria, strong preference for food and bioenergy from domestic sources is prevalent, while especially biomass imports for energy are met with scepticism. We here investigate where biomass consumed in Austria originates from, and compare the source-region composition of bi…

  • Changes in energy and livestock systems largely explain the forest transition in Austria (1830–1910)

    Open AccessGingrich, Christian Lauk et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2021Cited by: 1References: 72

    Achieving a global forest transition, that is a shift from deforestation to reforestation, is important for climate-change mitigation. Forest transitions are enabled by socioecological processes, including land displacement, agricultural intensification and woodfuel substitution for other energy, but their respective contributions remain poorly understood. Here, by means of a scenario approach we quantify the importance of enabling conditions of …

  • A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: Synthesizing the insights

    Open AccessH Haberl, Dominik Wiedenhofer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    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 …

  • The phosphorus legacy offers opportunities for agro-ecological transition (France 1850–2075)

    Open AccessJulia Le Noë, Nicolas Le Roux et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Management of the non-renewable resource phosphorus (P) is critical to agricultural sustainability. The global P cycle is currently disturbed beyond planetary boundaries, mostly due to large excess P use in the agriculture of industrialized countries, while P is lacking in the Global South. The trajectories of P management and their effects on future sustainable agriculture were investigated for the case of France from 1850 to 2015 based on empir…

  • Growing stocks of buildings, infrastructures and machinery as key challenge for compliance with climate targets

    Open AccessFridolin Krausmann, Dominik Wiedenhofer et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2020Cited by: 14References: 10

    Drastic reductions of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions are required to meet the goal of the 2015 Paris climate accord to limit global warming to 1.5–2.0 °C over pre-industrial levels. We introduce the material stock-flow framework as a novel way to develop scenarios for future GHG emissions using methods from social metabolism research. The basic assumption behind our exploratory scenario approach is that nearly all final energy is required to eith…

  • Scrutinizing the Great Acceleration: The Anthropocene and its analytic challenges for social-ecological transformations

    Open AccessC Görg, Christina Plank et al.ARTICLEThe Anthropocene Review2020Cited by: 17References: 67

    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…

  • Measuring Progress towards a Circular Economy: A Monitoring Framework for Economy‐wide Material Loop Closing in the EU28

    Open AccessAndreas Mayer, Willi Haas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2019

    The concept of a circular economy (CE) is gaining increasing attention from policy makers, industry, and academia. There is a rapidly evolving debate on definitions, limitations, the contribution to a wider sustainability agenda, and a need for indicators to assess the effectiveness of circular economy measures at larger scales. Herein, we present a framework for a comprehensive and economy-wide biophysical assessment of a CE, utilizing and syste…