Robert Lifset
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Lifset |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Lifset |
| SIGNATURE | LIFSET R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7507-1485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 90 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 90 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Assessing environmental impacts of digitalization
Policy for material efficiency in homes and cars
Material efficiency (ME), making products with less material or substituting with less carbon‐intensive material without a loss of functionality, can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and complement other strategies to mitigate climate change. Seven ME strategies for cars and homes in the G7 countries were recently modeled in a study by the International Resource Panel. Modeling indicates that ME strategies focusing on construction and use of…
M ichael C amp . Unnatural Resources
Despite the title of his book—Unnatural Resources: Energy And Environmental Politics in Appalachia after the 1973 Oil Embargo—Michael Camp has written a history of energy policies and politics during the administration of Jimmy Carter, with a focus on a series of controversies centered in Appalachia. The first chapter traces the political fight over decontrolling oil prices in the late 1970s, the creation of the Department of Energy, and Carter’s…
Material efficiency for climate change mitigation
Winners of the 2020 Graedel prizes
Winners of the 2018 Graedel Prizes
Winners of the 2019 Graedel Prizes
Taking the circular economy and the Journal of Industrial Ecology to the next level
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When They Hid the Fire
Commenting on the electrical exhibits on display at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900, Henry Adams wrote that electricity was “but an ingenious channel for conveying somewhere the heat latent in a few tons of coal hidden in a dirty engine house kept carefully out of sight” (p. 112). Daniel French mines cultural history and the history of science and technology to explore the consequences of this narrow …
Winners of the 2017 Graedel Prizes
Nullius in Verba1
With the growth of the field of industrial ecology (IE), research and results have increased significantly leading to a desire for better utilization of the accumulated data in more sophisticated analyses. This implies the need for greater transparency, accessibility, and reusability of IE data, paralleling the considerable momentum throughout the sciences. The Data Transparency Task Force (DTTF) was convened by the governing council of the Inter…
Selling Power
Reviewed by: Selling Power: Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940 by John L. Neufeld Robert Lifset (bio) Selling Power: Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940. By John L. Neufeld. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 336. Hardcover $60. Neufeld has written a history of the structure of the electric utility industry from its earliest days to 1940. As an economist, he is focused on the nature of the busines…
Charting the Environmental Dimensions of Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing
Environmental Dimensions of Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (AM) proposes a novel paradigm for engineering design and manufacturing, which has profound economic, environmental, and security implications. The design freedom offered by this category of manufacturing processes and its ability to locally print almost each designable object will have important repercussions across society. While AM applications are progressing from rapid prototyping to the production of end‐use products,…
Taking the Circularity to the Next Level
Winners of the 2016 Graedel Prizes
Charting the Future of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
Panic at the Pump
Panic at the Pump begins and ends with George H. W. Bush. After World War II a young Bush headed to west Texas to make his fortune in the oil fields. Four decades later he led the nation into war in the Middle East. The connection between that war and the energy crisis of the 1970s is one of Panic at the Pump's central insights: the energy crisis of the 1970s gave momentum to conservative efforts to reduce the role of government in the economy, t…
Winners of the 2015 Graedel Prizes
Industrial Ecology
Winners of the 2014 Graedel Prizes
The Next Step in the Evolution of the Journal of Industrial Ecology
Introducing First Winners of the Graedel Prize
Complexity in Industrial Ecology
Panic at the Pump
Panic at the Pump begins and ends with George H. W. Bush. After World War II a young Bush headed to west Texas to make his fortune in the oil fields. Four decades later he led the nation into war in the Middle East. The connection between that war and the energy crisis of the 1970s is one of Panic at the Pump's central insights: the energy crisis of the 1970s gave momentum to conservative efforts to reduce the role of government in the economy, t…
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"Imaging the "Devil's Excrement
The politics of risk assessment
Facing America's trash
War on Waste
Introduction to the Roundtable on the Industrial Ecology of Pulp and Paper
A Metaphor, a Field, and a Journal
Examining the Industrial Ecology of a Renewable Resource
What's in a Name
Relating Industry to Ecology
Why Industrial Ecology
On Becoming an Industrial Ecologist
A Glimmer of Success EPR and the Electronic Data Log
Setting the Boundaries
Getting the Goal Right
Making Connections
Why Industrial Ecology
Does Leasing Improve End of Product Life Management
A Lively and Productive Ferment
Transitions and Appreciation
Moving from Mass to What Matters
Moving from Products to Services
Trust, but Verify
Closing the Loop and Honing Our Tools
Save a Tree, Grow a Journal
Industrial ecology
Setting out the goals and boundaries of an emerging field is a hapless task. Set them too conservatively and the potential of the field is thwarted. Set them too expansively and the field loses its distinctive identity. Spend too much time on this task and scarce resources may be diverted from making concrete progress in the field
Leveling the Playing Field
Computer Science (69 works) · Library science (62 works) · Sustainable Industrial Ecology (59 works) · Citation (55 works) · Industrial ecology (44 works) · Ecology (39 works) · Sustainability (37 works) · Economics (34 works) · Environmental Impact and Sustainability (34 works) · Engineering (29 works)