Sangwon Suh

Biographic Data

ID3703616
NAMESangwon Suh
GIVEN NAMESSangwon
FAMILY NAMESuh
SIGNATURESUH S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
ORCID0000-0003-1014-3075
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • Measuring Income and Wealth Inequality

    Open AccessDonggyu Lee, Dongyub Lee et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2024References: 2

  • Towards circular plastics within planetary boundaries

    Open AccessMarvin Bachmann, Christian Zibunas et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023Cited by: 4References: 5

    The rapid growth of plastics production exacerbated the triple planetary crisis of habitat loss, plastic pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Circular strategies have been proposed for plastics to achieve net-zero GHG emissions. However, the implications of such circular strategies on absolute sustainability have not been examined on a planetary scale. This study links a bottom-up model covering both the production and end-of-life treatm…

  • Functionality‐based life cycle assessment framework

    Open AccessLin Shi, Katharine J Mach et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2022

    Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been widely applied to assessing the environmental impacts of information and communication technologies (ICT) products throughout their lifetime. Building upon LCA methodology, this study proposes a user‐oriented, functionality‐based LCA (FLCA) framework that evaluates the environmental impact of multifunctional ICT products such as smartphones. Incorporating the quality function deployment and LCA literature, we …

  • Accelerating the pace of ecotoxicological assessment using artificial intelligence

    Open AccessRunsheng Song, Dingsheng Li et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2022References: 45

    Species Sensitivity Distribution (SSD) is a key metric for understanding the potential ecotoxicological impacts of chemicals. However, SSDs have been developed to estimate for only handful of chemicals due to the scarcity of experimental toxicity data. Here we present a novel approach to expand the chemical coverage of SSDs using Artificial Neural Network (ANN). We collected over 2000 experimental toxicity data in Lethal Concentration 50 (LC50) f…

  • A review of methods for characterizing the environmental consequences of actions in life cycle assessment

    Open AccessJoseph Palazzo, Roland Geyer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2020

    Understanding the environmental consequences of actions is becoming increasingly important in the field of industrial ecology in general, and in life cycle assessment (LCA) more specifically. However, a consensus on how to operationalize this idea has not been reached. A variety of methods have been proposed and applied to case studies that cover various aspects of consequential life cycle assessment (CLCA). Previous reviews of the topic have foc…

  • Do we have enough natural sand for low‐carbon infrastructure

    Open AccessDimitra Ioannidou, Guido Sonnemann et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2020

    Global low‐carbon transition demands the development of large‐scale infrastructure, which is sand intensive. Natural sand is widely considered abundant, whereas recent research has pointed out the increasing risk of supply shortage in a number of world regions. In the current research, we examine the implication of future sand demand in the context of low‐carbon infrastructure development. We mapped the projected investments on buildings and low‐…

  • Pesticide application rates and their toxicological impacts

    Open AccessMengya Tao, Paul R Adler et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Pesticide usage in the U.S. has more than doubled since 1960, raising concerns on its human and ecological health implications. The literature indicates that pesticide application rates for the same crop vary widely across geographies, while the magnitude of variation and its underlying drivers are poorly understood. Here, we present a new dataset on farm-level pesticide application for maize in the U.S. Using the dataset, we derived four human a…

  • Closing yield gap is crucial to avoid potential surge in global carbon emissions

    Open AccessSangwon Suh, Justin A Johnson et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2020Cited by: 3

  • How large is the global living wage gap and the price increase needed to close it

    Open AccessMurray R Hall, Sangwon SuhARTICLESocio-Economic Review2020References: 27

    We estimated the global living wage gap (LWG) as $US674 billion per year, which is comparable to the gross domestic product (GDP) of Switzerland. India (IND), the largest LWG country, contributed 32% of the global LWG. For a pair of jeans, closing the gap increases low-skilled cotton and textile wages in IND by 137% and 52%, respectively, while the retail price would increase only by 8% if consumed in Western countries. However, we found that mos…

  • Environmental and natural resource implications of sustainable urban infrastructure systems

    Open AccessJoseph D Bergesen, Sangwon Suh et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    CITATION: Bergesen, J. D., et al. 2017. Environmental and natural resource implications of sustainable urban infrastructure systems. Environmental Research Letters, 12(12):1-13, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa98ca

  • Life Cycle Environmental and Natural Resource Implications of Energy Efficiency Technologies

    Open AccessSangwon Suh, Edgar G Hertwich et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2016

  • Potential Long‐Term Global Environmental Implications of Efficient Light‐Source Technologies

    Open AccessJoseph D Bergesen, Leena Tähkämö et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2016

    Artificial lighting is a major source of electricity demand globally. As the demand for lighting services grows over the next 40 years, especially in developing countries, efficient light‐source technologies such as light‐emitting diodes (LEDs) can reduce the energy consumed for lighting services and therefore its environmental impacts. LED technologies in both residential and commercial/industrial applications are expected to see dramatic improv…

  • Integrated life-cycle assessment of electricity-supply scenarios confirms global environmental benefit of low-carbon technologies

    Open AccessEdgar G Hertwich, Thomas Gibon et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2015

    Significance Life-cycle assessments commonly used to analyze the environmental costs and benefits of climate-mitigation options are usually static in nature and address individual power plants. Our paper presents, to our knowledge, the first life-cycle assessment of the large-scale implementation of climate-mitigation technologies, addressing the feedback of the electricity system onto itself and using scenario-consistent assumptions of technical…

  • The material footprint of nations

    Open AccessThomas Wiedmann, Thomas O Wiedmann et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2015

    Metrics on resource productivity currently used by governments suggest that some developed countries have increased the use of natural resources at a slower rate than economic growth (relative decoupling) or have even managed to use fewer resources over time (absolute decoupling). Using the material footprint (MF), a consumption-based indicator of resource use, we find the contrary: Achievements in decoupling in advanced economies are smaller tha…

  • Bioenergy and climate change mitigation

    Open AccessFelix Creutzig, N H Ravindranath et al.ARTICLEGCB Bioenergy2015

    Bioenergy deployment offers significant potential for climate change mitigation, but also carries considerable risks. In this review, we bring together perspectives of various communities involved in the research and regulation of bioenergy deployment in the context of climate change mitigation: Land‐use and energy experts, land‐use and integrated assessment modelers, human geographers, ecosystem researchers, climate scientists and two different …

  • The Role of Scale and Technology Maturity in Life Cycle Assessment of Emerging Technologies

    Open AccessSheetal Gavankar, Sangwon Suh et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2015

    Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been applied for assessing emerging technologies, where large‐scale production data are generally lacking. This study introduces a standardized scheme for technology and manufacturing readiness levels to contextualize a technology's development stage. We applied the scheme to a carbon nanotube (CNT) LCA and found that, regardless of synthesis technique, CNT manufacturing will become less energy intensive with incre…

  • Changes in environmental impacts of major crops in the US

    Open AccessYi Yang, Sangwon SuhARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    As with life cycle assessment (LCA) studies in general, agricultural LCAs often rely on static and outdated inventory data, but literature suggests that agricultural systems may be highly dynamic. Here, we applied life cycle impact assessment methods to investigate the trends and underlying drivers of changes in non-global environmental impacts of major crops in the US. The results show that the impact per hectare corn and cotton generated on the…

  • CO2 emission clusters within global supply chain networks

    Open AccessShigemi Kagawa, Sangwon Suh et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2015Cited by: 5References: 6

  • The Importance of Normalization References in Interpreting Life Cycle Assessment Results

    Open AccessJunbeum Kim, Yi Yang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2013

    A normalization step is widely exercised in life cycle assessment (LCA) studies in order to better understand the relative significance of impact category results. In the normalization stage, normalization references (NRs) are the characterized results of a reference system, typically a national or regional economy. Normalization is widely practiced in LCA‐based decision support and policy analysis (e.g., LCA cases in municipal solid waste treatm…

  • Finding environmentally important industry clusters

    Open AccessShigemi Kagawa, Shunsuke Okamoto et al.ARTICLESocial Networks2013

  • Better cars or older cars

    Open AccessShigemi Kagawa, Klaus Hubacek et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2013Cited by: 2

  • Greening Growing Giants

    Open AccessSeiji Hashimoto, Marina Fischer-Kowalski et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2012

  • Does South‐to‐North Water Transfer Reduce the Environmental Impact of Water Consumption in China

    Open AccessChen Lin, Sangwon Suh et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2012

    The South‐to‐North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP) is planned in China to alleviate the problem of the heterogeneous distribution of water resources. The project is expected to reduce water stress and decrease associated environmental impacts in northern China. This article utilizes life cycle impact assessment modeling, including regionalized water consumption impact assessment and an interregional input‐output model, to examine the potential of …

  • Comparison of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches to Calculating the Water Footprints of Nations

    K Feng, Ashok K Chapagain et al.ARTICLEEconomic Systems Research2011

    The water footprint has been introduced as a potential sustainability indicator for human-induced water consumption, and has frequently been studied at local, national and international scales during the last decade. While water footprints are sometimes understood as a measure that includes environmental impact assessment, the water footprint as used in this paper refers to volumes of water consumed, without including weighting procedures to allo…

  • Generalized Make and Use Framework for Allocation in Life Cycle Assessment

    Open AccessSangwon Suh, Bo P Weidema et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2010

    Allocation in life cycle inventory (LCI) analysis is one of the long‐standing methodological issues in life cycle assessment (LCA). Discussion on allocation among LCA researchers has taken place almost in complete isolation from the series of closely related discussions from the 1960s in the field of input−output economics, regarding the supply and use framework. This article aims at developing a coherent mathematical framework for allocation in …