Gjalt Huppes
Biographic Data
| ID | 1413301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gjalt Huppes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gjalt |
| FAMILY NAME | Huppes |
| SIGNATURE | HUPPES G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mathematics and the Anthropocene equation: Comment on Gaffney O and Steffen W (2017) The Anthropocene equation. The Anthropocene Review 4:53-61
A recent paper in The Anthropocene Review introduces an ‘Anthropocene equation’, which is assumed to model the Anthropocene. While welcoming mathematical treatment as such, we criticize the specific approach for being sloppy, wrong and empty. While the use of mathematics in the criticized paper suggests a high level of scientific rigor, it actually weakens the message rather than strengthens it
Life Cycle Assessment: Past, Present, and Future
Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) has developed fast over the last three decades. Whereas LCA developed from merely energy analysis to a comprehensive environmental burden analysis in the 1970s, full-fledged life cycle impact assessment and life cycle costing models were introduced in the 1980s and 1990 s, and social-LCA and particularly consequential LCA gained ground in the first decade of the 21st century. Many of the more recent devel…
Challenges for Industrial Ecology in Practice and Theory: Creating a Sustainable World for Nine Billion in 2050
Visions for Industrial Ecology: Preface to the Special Section
Dynamic Material Flow Analysis for Strategic Construction and Demolition Waste Management in Beijing
Of all materials extracted from the earth's crust, the construction sector uses 50%, producing huge amounts of construction and demolition waste (CDW). In Beijing, presently 35 million metric tons per year (megatonnes/year [Mt/yr]) of CDW are generated. This amount is expected to grow significantly when the first round of mass buildings erected in the 1990s starts to be demolished. In this study, a dynamic material flow analysis (MFA) is conducte…
Eco-efficiency: From focused technical tools to reflective sustainability analysis
Eco-efficiency guiding micro-level actions towards sustainability: Ten basic steps for analysis
Sustainable Futures: The Rationale for the Working Group on Modeling and Evaluation for Sustainability
Eco-efficient environmental policy in oil and gas production in The Netherlands
Sustainability evaluation: Diverging routes recombined
Environmental Impacts of Consumption in the European Union: High‐Resolution Input‐Output Tables with Detailed Environmental Extensions
For developing product policy, insight into the environmental effects of products is required. But available life‐cycle assessment studies (LCAs) are hardly comparable between different products and do not cover total consumption. Input‐output analysis with environmental extensions (EEIOA) of full consumption is not available for the European Union. Available country studies have a low sector resolution and a limited number of environmental exten…
Toward an Information Tool for Integrated Product Policy: Requirements for Data and Computation
Integrated product policy, according to the European Union, requires reliable data on the impact of consumer products along their life cycles. We argue that this necessarily requires the development of an information tool for hybrid analysis, combining aspects of life‐cycle assessment and input‐output analysis. A number of requirements in the development of such a hybrid information tool are identified, mainly concerning data and computational st…
Methods for Life Cycle Inventory of a product
Calculating Cost‐effectiveness for Activities with Multiple Environmental Effects Using the Maximum Abatement Cost Method
A maximum abatement cost (MAC) method is proposed as a means of assessing preferential purchasing of products with multiple environmental effects. Using the MAC method, cost‐effectiveness of the introduction of a product with less emissions of some substances than conventional products can be assessed. In the MAC method, the reduction of a pollutant is multiplied by the MAC, the maximum unit cost of the measures taken elsewhere in society aiming …
Why Eco‐efficiency
Eco‐efficiency and Its xsTerminology
Eco‐efficiency has been defined as a general goal of creating value while decreasing environmental impact. Leaving out the normative part of this concept, the empirical part refers to a ratio between environmental impact and economic cost or value. Two basic choices must be made in defining practical eco‐efficiency: which variable is in the denominator and which is in the numerator; and whether to specify environmental impact or improvement and v…
A Framework for Quantified Eco‐efficiency Analysis
Eco‐efficiency is an instrument for sustainability analysis, indicating an empirical relation in economic activities between environmental cost or value and environmental impact. This empirical relation can be matched against normative considerations as to how much environmental quality or improvement society would like to offer in exchange for economic welfare, or what the trade‐off between the economy and the environment should be if society is…
System Boundary Selection in Life-Cycle Inventories Using Hybrid Approaches
Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is a method for evaluating the environmental impacts of products holistically, including direct and supply chain impacts. The current LCA methodologies and the standards by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) impose practical difficulties for drawing system boundaries; decisions on inclusion or exclusion of processes in an analysis (the cutoff criteria) are typically not made on a scientific basis.…
Three Strategies to Overcome the Limitations of Life‐Cycle Assessment
Many research efforts aim at an extension of life‐cycle assessment (LCA) in order to increase its spatial or temporal detail or to enlarge its scope. This is an important contribution to industrial ecology as a scientific discipline, but from the application viewpoint other options are available to obtain more detailed information, or to obtain information over a broader range of impacts in a life‐cycle perspective. This article discusses three d…
Full Mode and Attribution Mode in Environmental Analysis
Several tools exist for the analysis of the environmental impacts of chains or networks of processes. These relatively simple tools include materials flow accounting (MFA), substance flow analysis (SFA), life‐cycle assessment (LCA), energy analysis, and environmentally extended input‐output analysis (IOA), all based on fixed input‐output relations. They are characterized by the nature of their flow objects, such as products, materials, energy, su…
Material flows and economic models: An analytical comparison of SFA, LCA and partial equilibrium models
Evaluation of risks of metal flows and accumulation in economy and environment
Economic characteristics of chemicals as a basis for pollutants policy
Market‐Oriented Regulation of Environmental Problems in the Netherlands
Two functioning regulatory tax programs in The Netherlands indicate certain conditions under which such frequently‐advocated but infrequently‐adopted regulatory strategies can be successfully implemented. A flat fee on oxygen‐demanding substances in industrial effluents, introduced in 1970, has been very successful, stimulating a 90% reduction in pollution and a search for cost‐effective abatement measures. However, a recently‐enacted law aimed a…
Market‐Oriented Regulation of Environmental Problems in the Netherlands
Two functioning regulatory tax programs in The Netherlands indicate certain conditions under which such frequently‐advocated but infrequently‐adopted regulatory strategies can be successfully implemented. A flat fee on oxygen‐demanding substances in industrial effluents, introduced in 1970, has been very successful, stimulating a 90% reduction in pollution and a search for cost‐effective abatement measures. However, a recently‐enacted law aimed a…
Market‐Oriented Regulation of Environmental Problems in the Netherlands
Two functioning regulatory tax programs in The Netherlands indicate certain conditions under which such frequently‐advocated but infrequently‐adopted regulatory strategies can be successfully implemented. A flat fee on oxygen‐demanding substances in industrial effluents, introduced in 1970, has been very successful, stimulating a 90% reduction in pollution and a search for cost‐effective abatement measures. However, a recently‐enacted law aimed a…
Economic characteristics of chemicals as a basis for pollutants policy
Evaluation of risks of metal flows and accumulation in economy and environment
Full Mode and Attribution Mode in Environmental Analysis
Several tools exist for the analysis of the environmental impacts of chains or networks of processes. These relatively simple tools include materials flow accounting (MFA), substance flow analysis (SFA), life‐cycle assessment (LCA), energy analysis, and environmentally extended input‐output analysis (IOA), all based on fixed input‐output relations. They are characterized by the nature of their flow objects, such as products, materials, energy, su…
Material flows and economic models: An analytical comparison of SFA, LCA and partial equilibrium models
System Boundary Selection in Life-Cycle Inventories Using Hybrid Approaches
Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is a method for evaluating the environmental impacts of products holistically, including direct and supply chain impacts. The current LCA methodologies and the standards by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) impose practical difficulties for drawing system boundaries; decisions on inclusion or exclusion of processes in an analysis (the cutoff criteria) are typically not made on a scientific basis.…
Three Strategies to Overcome the Limitations of Life‐Cycle Assessment
Many research efforts aim at an extension of life‐cycle assessment (LCA) in order to increase its spatial or temporal detail or to enlarge its scope. This is an important contribution to industrial ecology as a scientific discipline, but from the application viewpoint other options are available to obtain more detailed information, or to obtain information over a broader range of impacts in a life‐cycle perspective. This article discusses three d…
Methods for Life Cycle Inventory of a product
Calculating Cost‐effectiveness for Activities with Multiple Environmental Effects Using the Maximum Abatement Cost Method
A maximum abatement cost (MAC) method is proposed as a means of assessing preferential purchasing of products with multiple environmental effects. Using the MAC method, cost‐effectiveness of the introduction of a product with less emissions of some substances than conventional products can be assessed. In the MAC method, the reduction of a pollutant is multiplied by the MAC, the maximum unit cost of the measures taken elsewhere in society aiming …
Why Eco‐efficiency
Eco‐efficiency and Its xsTerminology
Eco‐efficiency has been defined as a general goal of creating value while decreasing environmental impact. Leaving out the normative part of this concept, the empirical part refers to a ratio between environmental impact and economic cost or value. Two basic choices must be made in defining practical eco‐efficiency: which variable is in the denominator and which is in the numerator; and whether to specify environmental impact or improvement and v…
A Framework for Quantified Eco‐efficiency Analysis
Eco‐efficiency is an instrument for sustainability analysis, indicating an empirical relation in economic activities between environmental cost or value and environmental impact. This empirical relation can be matched against normative considerations as to how much environmental quality or improvement society would like to offer in exchange for economic welfare, or what the trade‐off between the economy and the environment should be if society is…
Environmental Impacts of Consumption in the European Union: High‐Resolution Input‐Output Tables with Detailed Environmental Extensions
For developing product policy, insight into the environmental effects of products is required. But available life‐cycle assessment studies (LCAs) are hardly comparable between different products and do not cover total consumption. Input‐output analysis with environmental extensions (EEIOA) of full consumption is not available for the European Union. Available country studies have a low sector resolution and a limited number of environmental exten…
Toward an Information Tool for Integrated Product Policy: Requirements for Data and Computation
Integrated product policy, according to the European Union, requires reliable data on the impact of consumer products along their life cycles. We argue that this necessarily requires the development of an information tool for hybrid analysis, combining aspects of life‐cycle assessment and input‐output analysis. A number of requirements in the development of such a hybrid information tool are identified, mainly concerning data and computational st…
Sustainable Futures: The Rationale for the Working Group on Modeling and Evaluation for Sustainability
Eco-efficient environmental policy in oil and gas production in The Netherlands
Sustainability evaluation: Diverging routes recombined
Eco-efficiency: From focused technical tools to reflective sustainability analysis
Eco-efficiency guiding micro-level actions towards sustainability: Ten basic steps for analysis
Dynamic Material Flow Analysis for Strategic Construction and Demolition Waste Management in Beijing
Of all materials extracted from the earth's crust, the construction sector uses 50%, producing huge amounts of construction and demolition waste (CDW). In Beijing, presently 35 million metric tons per year (megatonnes/year [Mt/yr]) of CDW are generated. This amount is expected to grow significantly when the first round of mass buildings erected in the 1990s starts to be demolished. In this study, a dynamic material flow analysis (MFA) is conducte…
Life Cycle Assessment: Past, Present, and Future
Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) has developed fast over the last three decades. Whereas LCA developed from merely energy analysis to a comprehensive environmental burden analysis in the 1970s, full-fledged life cycle impact assessment and life cycle costing models were introduced in the 1980s and 1990 s, and social-LCA and particularly consequential LCA gained ground in the first decade of the 21st century. Many of the more recent devel…
Challenges for Industrial Ecology in Practice and Theory: Creating a Sustainable World for Nine Billion in 2050
Visions for Industrial Ecology: Preface to the Special Section
Mathematics and the Anthropocene equation: Comment on Gaffney O and Steffen W (2017) The Anthropocene equation. The Anthropocene Review 4:53-61
A recent paper in The Anthropocene Review introduces an ‘Anthropocene equation’, which is assumed to model the Anthropocene. While welcoming mathematical treatment as such, we criticize the specific approach for being sloppy, wrong and empty. While the use of mathematics in the criticized paper suggests a high level of scientific rigor, it actually weakens the message rather than strengthens it
Environmental Impact and Sustainability (17 works) · Sustainability (15 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Economics (14 works) · Business (13 works) · Ecology (13 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Industrial ecology (10 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · Environmental economics (7 works)