Bringezu
Biographic Data
| ID | 25477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bringezu |
| FAMILY NAME | Bringezu |
| SIGNATURE | BRINGEZU |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kassel |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8745-984X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Quantifying overconsumption: Deriving safe and equitable benchmarks to evaluate the environmental footprints of Germany's bioeconomy
The transition to a sustainable bioeconomy joins socio-economic and environmental goals. Getting there requires monitoring national consumption levels in relation to sustainability metrics. While substituting biomass for fossil and mineral resources can lead to win-wins, there is also a risk that if done the wrong way, impacts could accumulate at a global scale to push planetary systems beyond their boundaries and exacerbate vulnerability and inj…
Safe and just Earth system boundaries
The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably linked 1–3 , yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they are often treated independently 4,5 . Here, we use modelling and literature assessment to quantify safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for climate, the biosphere, water and nutrient cycles, and aerosols at global and subglobal scales. We propose ESBs for maintain…
Identifying a Safe and Just Corridor for People and the Planet
Keeping the Earth system in a stable and resilient state, to safeguard Earth's life support systems while ensuring that Earth's benefits, risks, and related responsibilities are equitably shared, constitutes the grand challenge for human development in the Anthropocene. Here, we describe a framework that the recently formed Earth Commission will use to define and quantify target ranges for a “safe and just corridor” that meets these goals. Althou…
Eating healthy or wasting less? Reducing resource footprints of food consumption
To feed future populations on ever-scarcer natural resources, policy initiatives aim to decrease resource footprints of food consumption. While adopting healthier diets has shown great potential to reduce footprints, current political initiatives primarily address strategies to reduce food waste, with the target of halving food waste at retail and consumption levels by 2030. Using Germany as a case study, we compare the resource-saving potential …
Environmental and socioeconomic footprints of the German bioeconomy
How to monitor environmental pressures of a circular economy: An assessment of indicators
Understanding how a circular economy (CE) can reduce environmental pressures from economic activities is crucial for policy and practice. Science provides a range of indicators to monitor and assess CE activities. However, common CE activities, such as recycling and eco‐design, are contested in terms of their contribution to environmental sustainability. This article assesses whether and to what extent current approaches to assess CE activities s…
European Timber Consumption: Developing a Method to Account for Timber Flows and the EU's Global Forest Footprint
Toward a systemic monitoring of the European bioeconomy: Gaps, needs and the integration of sustainability indicators and targets for global land use
On the mechanism and effects of innovation: Search for safety and independence of resource constraints expands the safe operating range
The land footprint of the EU bioeconomy: Monitoring tools, gaps and needs
Carbon Recycling for Renewable Materials and Energy Supply: Recent Trends, Long‐Term Options, and Challenges for Research and Development
The current flow of carbon for the production, use, and waste management of polymer‐based products is still mostly linear from the lithosphere to the atmosphere with rather low rates of material recycling. In view of a limited future supply of biomass, this article outlines the options to further develop carbon recycling (C‐REC). The focus is on carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) capture and use for synthesis of platform chemicals to produce polymers. CO 2 m…
Environmental Implications and Costs of Municipal Solid Waste‐Derived Ethylene
Carbon recycling, in which organic waste is recycled into chemical feedstock for material production, may provide benefits in resource efficiency and a more cyclical economy—but may also create “trade‐offs” in increased impacts elsewhere. We investigate the system‐wide environmental burdens and cost associated with carbon recycling routes capable of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) by gasification and Fischer‐Tropsch synthesis into ethylene…
A Review of the Environmental Impacts of Biobased Materials
Concerns over climate change and the security of industrial feedstock supplies have been opening a growing market for biobased materials. This development, however, also presents a challenge to scientists, policy makers, and industry because the production of biobased materials requires land and is typically associated with adverse environmental effects. This article addresses the environmental impacts of biobased materials in a meta‐analysis of …
Nachhaltiges Ressourcen- und Stoffstrommanagement Zwischen Gigatonnen und Mikrogramm
Nachhaltiges Ressourcenmanagement ist ein zentrales Forschungsfeld im NaWisVerbund: Zwei neue Professuren stellen ihr Programm vor und zeigen Leitbilder einer nachhaltigen Ressourcenpolitik auf
The physical dimension of international trade, part 2: Indirect global resource flows between 1962 and 2005
Beyond biofuels: Assessing global land use for domestic consumption of biomass
The physical dimension of international trade
Platinum Group Metal Flows of Europe, Part II: Exploring the Technological and Institutional Potential for Reducing Environmental Impacts
A model of the use of the platinum group metals (PGMs) platinum, palladium, and rhodium in Europe has been developed and combined with a model of the environmental pressures related to PGM production. Compared to the base case presented in Part I of this pair of articles, potential changes in PGM production and use are quantified with regard to cumulative and yearly environmental impacts and PGM resource use, for the period 2005–2020. Reducing su…
Platinum Group Metal Flows of Europe, Part 1: Global Supply, Use in Industry, and Shifting of Environmental Impacts
In this article, we analyze flows of the platinum group metals (PGMs) platinum, palladium, and rhodium and the environmental impacts associated with their supply in Europe. A model of the use of PGMs in Europe has been developed, and this is combined with a model of environmental pressures related to PGM production. Seven industrial sectors and product groups form the main users of PGMs in Europe, comprising the chemical, petroleum, and glass ind…
International comparison of resource use and its relation to economic growth
Rationale for and Interpretation of Economy‐Wide Materials Flow Analysis and Derived Indicators
Economy‐wide material flow analysis (MFA) and derived indicators have been developed to monitor and assess the metabolic performance of economies, that is, with respect to the internal economic flows and the exchange of materials with the environment and with other economies. Indicators such as direct material input (DMI) and direct material consumption (DMC) measure material use related to either production or consumption. Domestic hidden flows …
The physical dimension of international trade
The land footprint of the EU bioeconomy: Monitoring tools, gaps and needs
Beyond biofuels: Assessing global land use for domestic consumption of biomass
Toward a systemic monitoring of the European bioeconomy: Gaps, needs and the integration of sustainability indicators and targets for global land use
Rationale for and Interpretation of Economy‐Wide Materials Flow Analysis and Derived Indicators
Economy‐wide material flow analysis (MFA) and derived indicators have been developed to monitor and assess the metabolic performance of economies, that is, with respect to the internal economic flows and the exchange of materials with the environment and with other economies. Indicators such as direct material input (DMI) and direct material consumption (DMC) measure material use related to either production or consumption. Domestic hidden flows …
International comparison of resource use and its relation to economic growth
Platinum Group Metal Flows of Europe, Part 1: Global Supply, Use in Industry, and Shifting of Environmental Impacts
In this article, we analyze flows of the platinum group metals (PGMs) platinum, palladium, and rhodium and the environmental impacts associated with their supply in Europe. A model of the use of PGMs in Europe has been developed, and this is combined with a model of environmental pressures related to PGM production. Seven industrial sectors and product groups form the main users of PGMs in Europe, comprising the chemical, petroleum, and glass ind…
Platinum Group Metal Flows of Europe, Part II: Exploring the Technological and Institutional Potential for Reducing Environmental Impacts
A model of the use of the platinum group metals (PGMs) platinum, palladium, and rhodium in Europe has been developed and combined with a model of the environmental pressures related to PGM production. Compared to the base case presented in Part I of this pair of articles, potential changes in PGM production and use are quantified with regard to cumulative and yearly environmental impacts and PGM resource use, for the period 2005–2020. Reducing su…
The physical dimension of international trade
A Review of the Environmental Impacts of Biobased Materials
Concerns over climate change and the security of industrial feedstock supplies have been opening a growing market for biobased materials. This development, however, also presents a challenge to scientists, policy makers, and industry because the production of biobased materials requires land and is typically associated with adverse environmental effects. This article addresses the environmental impacts of biobased materials in a meta‐analysis of …
Nachhaltiges Ressourcen- und Stoffstrommanagement Zwischen Gigatonnen und Mikrogramm
Nachhaltiges Ressourcenmanagement ist ein zentrales Forschungsfeld im NaWisVerbund: Zwei neue Professuren stellen ihr Programm vor und zeigen Leitbilder einer nachhaltigen Ressourcenpolitik auf
The physical dimension of international trade, part 2: Indirect global resource flows between 1962 and 2005
Beyond biofuels: Assessing global land use for domestic consumption of biomass
Environmental Implications and Costs of Municipal Solid Waste‐Derived Ethylene
Carbon recycling, in which organic waste is recycled into chemical feedstock for material production, may provide benefits in resource efficiency and a more cyclical economy—but may also create “trade‐offs” in increased impacts elsewhere. We investigate the system‐wide environmental burdens and cost associated with carbon recycling routes capable of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) by gasification and Fischer‐Tropsch synthesis into ethylene…
Carbon Recycling for Renewable Materials and Energy Supply: Recent Trends, Long‐Term Options, and Challenges for Research and Development
The current flow of carbon for the production, use, and waste management of polymer‐based products is still mostly linear from the lithosphere to the atmosphere with rather low rates of material recycling. In view of a limited future supply of biomass, this article outlines the options to further develop carbon recycling (C‐REC). The focus is on carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) capture and use for synthesis of platform chemicals to produce polymers. CO 2 m…
On the mechanism and effects of innovation: Search for safety and independence of resource constraints expands the safe operating range
The land footprint of the EU bioeconomy: Monitoring tools, gaps and needs
Toward a systemic monitoring of the European bioeconomy: Gaps, needs and the integration of sustainability indicators and targets for global land use
European Timber Consumption: Developing a Method to Account for Timber Flows and the EU's Global Forest Footprint
How to monitor environmental pressures of a circular economy: An assessment of indicators
Understanding how a circular economy (CE) can reduce environmental pressures from economic activities is crucial for policy and practice. Science provides a range of indicators to monitor and assess CE activities. However, common CE activities, such as recycling and eco‐design, are contested in terms of their contribution to environmental sustainability. This article assesses whether and to what extent current approaches to assess CE activities s…
Identifying a Safe and Just Corridor for People and the Planet
Keeping the Earth system in a stable and resilient state, to safeguard Earth's life support systems while ensuring that Earth's benefits, risks, and related responsibilities are equitably shared, constitutes the grand challenge for human development in the Anthropocene. Here, we describe a framework that the recently formed Earth Commission will use to define and quantify target ranges for a “safe and just corridor” that meets these goals. Althou…
Eating healthy or wasting less? Reducing resource footprints of food consumption
To feed future populations on ever-scarcer natural resources, policy initiatives aim to decrease resource footprints of food consumption. While adopting healthier diets has shown great potential to reduce footprints, current political initiatives primarily address strategies to reduce food waste, with the target of halving food waste at retail and consumption levels by 2030. Using Germany as a case study, we compare the resource-saving potential …
Environmental and socioeconomic footprints of the German bioeconomy
Safe and just Earth system boundaries
The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably linked 1–3 , yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they are often treated independently 4,5 . Here, we use modelling and literature assessment to quantify safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for climate, the biosphere, water and nutrient cycles, and aerosols at global and subglobal scales. We propose ESBs for maintain…
Quantifying overconsumption: Deriving safe and equitable benchmarks to evaluate the environmental footprints of Germany's bioeconomy
The transition to a sustainable bioeconomy joins socio-economic and environmental goals. Getting there requires monitoring national consumption levels in relation to sustainability metrics. While substituting biomass for fossil and mineral resources can lead to win-wins, there is also a risk that if done the wrong way, impacts could accumulate at a global scale to push planetary systems beyond their boundaries and exacerbate vulnerability and inj…
Economics (13 works) · Environmental Science (13 works) · Natural resource economics (12 works) · Environmental Impact and Sustainability (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Sustainability (9 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works) · Waste management (6 works)