H Haberl

Biographic Data

ID29506
NAMEH Haberl
GIVEN NAMESH
FAMILY NAMEHaberl
SIGNATUREHABERL H
AFFILIATIONSBOKU University
ORCID0000-0003-2104-5446
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS117
TOTAL CITATIONS584
AUTHOR COUNT117
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX14

  • Intra-settlement scaling across the urban–rural continuum: Material stocks, service provisioning, and greenhouse gas emissions in the contiguous United States

    Open AccessYi Yang, Yiwei Yang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2026

    Research on urban scaling laws suggests that cities with larger populations tend to be more resource-efficient, yet whether these findings hold across spatial scales, varying definitions of ‘urban’ and the entire rural–urban continuum remains unresolved. Herein, we leverage high-resolution maps for the entire contiguous United States of America to examine how built environment material stocks, service provisioning, and operational greenhouse gas …

  • 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…

  • Weighing the global built environment: High‐resolution mapping and quantification of material stocks in buildings

    Open AccessH Haberl, André Baumgart et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2025

    Buildings provide indispensable services for human well‐being, but their construction and use are responsible for a substantial fraction of societies’ resource requirements and greenhouse gas emissions. Mapping and quantifying the material stocks in buildings is a key research frontier in industrial ecology. Reliable and spatially highly resolved maps of material stocks in buildings worldwide are so far not available. Existing approaches based on…

  • Tipping points toward sustainability: The role of industrial ecology

    Open AccessClaudia R Binder, Aristide Athanassiadis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2025

    The discussion of tipping points (TPs) is getting increasing attention when addressing the climate and energy crisis. While industrial ecology (IE) has been playing a role in the climate and energy debates, it has so far fallen short of substantially adding to the research on TPs. This forum input highlights how the current contributions from IE have impacted the scientific community's understanding of TP. It highlights potential areas where IE e…

  • Breaching planetary boundaries: Over half of global land area suffers critical losses in functional biosphere integrity

    Open AccessFabian Stenzel, Liad Ben Uri et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2025

    Mapping ecosystem integrity is a key task of the planetary-boundaries framework. Two new control variables have been suggested for the core planetary boundary for functional biosphere integrity: (1) human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) and (2) a metric for ecological disruption (EcoRisk). However they have not yet been mapped spatially and temporally explicitly. Here, we use simulations with the dynamic global vegetation model LP…

  • Integrating sufficiency in the trade and biodiversity agenda of the European Union

    Open AccessNicolas Le Roux, Johanna Coenen et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2025

    Publisher of over 50 scientific journals across the life, physical, earth, and health sciences, both independently and in partnership with scientific societies including Cell, Neuron, Immunity, Current Biology, AJHG, and the Trends Journals

  • Global inequalities in countries' demand for raw materials: Twenty years of expansion and insufficient convergence

    Open AccessJuan Antonio Duro, Noemi Ramirez et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2025

  • 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 …

  • Reconceptualizing the role of socioeconomic material stocks in the leverage points framework to enable transformative change

    Open AccessWilli Haas, David J Abson et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2025References: 4

  • 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…

  • Sustainable land systems in the Anthropocene: Navigating the global land squeeze

    Open AccessKarlheinz Erb, Sarah Matej et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024

    Terrestrial ecosystems provide biomass for food, feed, fuel and fibre. Land also hosts infrastructures and waste deposits. At the same time, ecosystems perform ecological functions that are essential for climate regulation and biodiversity, among others. A plethora of demands on land system emerges from ongoing population growth and widespread malnutrition combined with the necessity to safeguard biodiversity while ramping up natural climate solu…

  • Society’s material stocks as carbon pool: An economy-wide quantification of global carbon stocks from 1900–2015

    Open AccessLisa Kaufmann, Dominik Wiedenhofer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Societal activities massively alter the global carbon (C) cycle, thereby driving global climate heating. Socioeconomic material stocks - e.g. in buildings and infrastructures - have been identified as a C pool that can potentially store increasing amounts of C, thereby keeping C away from the atmosphere. However, little is known about the size, composition, distribution and development of global socioeconomic C stocks. Based on an established eco…

  • How experiments with superblocks in Vienna shape climate and health outcomes and interact with the urban planning regime

    Open AccessAnna-Katharina Brenner, Willi Haas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Transport Geography2024Cited by: 3References: 2

    Superblocks are traffic-calmed neighborhoods that contribute to climate change mitigation and improve living and health conditions of inhabitants without requiring extensive reconstructions. This article investigates experiments with superblocks in Vienna (Austria) from initial discussion to the first experimental implementation. We use an integrated mixed-method approach: First, we examined potential climate and health benefits of three hypothet…

  • What drives densification and sprawl in cities? A spatially explicit assessment for Vienna, between 1984 and 2018

    Open AccessAnna-Katharina Brenner, Willi Haas et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2024Cited by: 4References: 35

    The spatial arrangement of settlements constitutes a long-lasting legacy and shapes the prospects for transformations toward sustainability. Thus, understanding the drivers of changes in settlement patterns is essential. In this article, we present a spatially explicit, geostatistical analysis of settlement dynamics, and a qualitative investigation of its regulative, demographic, and economic drivers, using the example of Vienna, Austria between …

  • High‐resolution mapping of 33 years of material stock and population growth in Germany using Earth Observation data

    Open AccessFranz Schug, David Frantz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2023

    Global societal material stock in buildings and infrastructure have accumulated rapidly within the last decades, along with population growth. Recently, an approach for nation‐wide mapping of material stock at 10 m spatial resolution, using freely available and globally consistent Earth Observation (EO) imagery, has been introduced as an alternative to cost‐intensive cadastral data or broad‐scale but thematically limited nighttime light‐based map…

  • Beyond cooking: An energy services perspective on household energy use in low and middle income countries

    Open AccessHarald F Grabher, H Rau et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2023References: 21

    More than three billion people depend on solid fuels for household energy, especially in rural areas of low and lower-middle income countries (LIC/LMIC). Rural households in LIC/LMIC use energy for a wide range of purposes, including food preparation, space and water heating, insect repulsion, illumination or the preparation of goods for sale. However, in these contexts, the majority of energy research frames energy end use as “cooking”. So far, …

  • Household energy systems based on biomass: Tracing material flows from source to service in rural Ethiopia

    Open AccessHarald F Grabher, Karlheinz Erb et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2023Cited by: 1References: 6

    Biomass remains the most important energy carrier of rural households in low- and middle-income countries, but its indoor combustion has grave impacts on human health and its extraction is associated with negative effects on ecosystems. Currently, robust and comprehensive data are lacking to trace biomass flows from ecosystems to consumption in households and quantify the related services. This impedes analyses of the social and environmental imp…

  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

    Open AccessPatrick Meyfroidt, Ariane De Bremond et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2022

    Land use is central to addressing sustainability issues, including biodiversity conservation, climate change, food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable energy. In this paper, we synthesize knowledge accumulated in land system science, the integrated study of terrestrial social-ecological systems, into 10 hard truths that have strong, general, empirical support. These facts help to explain the challenges of achieving sustainability in la…

  • Using the Secland model to project future land-use until 2050 under climate and socioeconomic change in the LTSER region Eisenwurzen (Austria)

    Open AccessClaudine Egger, Christoph Plutzar et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2022Cited by: 1References: 2

    Farmers in Europe act within guidelines set by agricultural programs, market demands and biophysical constraints. At the same time, they are social actors embedded in their respective family structures and individual lifestyles and preferences. We here present the socio-ecological land-use model SECLAND that provides an improved representation of the versatility in farmer's characteristics and subsequently its impact on land-use decision making. …

  • 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…

  • From planetary to societal boundaries: An argument for collectively defined self-limitation

    Open AccessUlrich Brand, Barbara Muraca et al.ARTICLESustainability: Science, Practice…2021

    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…

  • The use of steel in the United Kingdom's transport sector: A stock–flow–service nexus case study

    Open AccessLuis Gabriel Carmona, Kai Whiting et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2021

    Energy and material flows and material stocks are key requirements for the supply of goods and services, which in turn support societal development. However, most resource accounting methods restrict the analysis to resource flows, which fails to acknowledge the increasing role of in‐use stocks in service provision. Using the UK transport sector as a case study, we undertook a material flow analysis through the lens of the stock–flow–service (SFS…

  • Stocks, flows, services and practices: Nexus approaches to sustainable social metabolism

    Open AccessH Haberl, Martin Schmid et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2021

  • The transformation of provisioning systems from an integrated perspective of social metabolism and political economy: A conceptual framework

    Open AccessA Schaffartzik, Melanie Pichler et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2021Cited by: 5References: 33

    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…