Lorenz M Hilty
Biographic Data
| ID | 4082465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorenz M Hilty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorenz M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hilty |
| SIGNATURE | HILTY L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5020-0586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A review of assessments of the greenhouse gas footprint and abatement potential of information and communication technology
Various studies have assessed the GHG footprint of the ICT sector (ICT end-user devices, data centers, telecommunication networks) and the potential of ICT use cases (e.g. smart homes, ride sharing) to avoid GHG emissions in other sectors (e.g buildings, transport). We systematically compare relevant studies from the last ten years and discuss the robustness of results in view of the methods used. The results show that the ICT sector causes betwe…
Digitalization and Sustainability: A Call for a Digital Green Deal
The relation between digitalization and environmental sustainability is ambiguous. There is potential of various digital technologies to slow down the transgression of planetary boundaries. Yet resource and energy demand for digital hardware production and use of data-intensive applications is of substantial size. The world over, there is no comprehensive regulation that addresses opportunities and risks of digital technology for sustainability. …
Consumer-oriented interventions to extend smartphones’ service lifetime
A promising strategy to reduce smartphones' environmental footprint is to increase their service lifetime, thereby reducing the demand for resource-intensive production of new devices. Most of the existing literature focuses on production-oriented measures, such as improving repairability, but what remains missing is a systematic overview of consumer-oriented interventions to extend smartphones' service lifetime. In this study, we applied the con…
The digital sharing economy: A confluence of technical and social sharing
With the diffusion of digital technologies, new forms of sharing have emerged called ‘the sharing economy’. Digitalization has been the enabler for covering a broad range of sharable resources (technical aspect of sharing) and for operating beyond the limits of small groups and personal relationships (social aspect of sharing). This two-fold digital transition of sharing has enabled unprecedented efficiency in coordinating access to resources. It…
Sources of variation in life cycle assessments of smartphones and tablet computers
Service Lifetime, Storage Time, and Disposal Pathways of Electronic Equipment: A Swiss Case Study
Product lifetime is an essential aspect of dynamic material flow analyses and has been modeled using lifetime distribution functions, mostly average lifetimes. Existing data regarding the lifetime of electronic equipment (EE) are based on diverging definitions of lifetime as well as different temporal and regional scopes. After its active use, EE is often not disposed of immediately, but remains in storage for some time. Specific data on the shar…
An agent-based model of wood markets: Scenario analysis
Enhancing Agent-Based Models with Discrete Choice Experiments
Agent-based modeling is a promising method to investigate market dynamics, as it allows modeling the behavior of all market participants individually. Integrating empirical data in the agents' decision model can improve the validity of agent-based models (ABMs). We present an approach of using discrete choice experiments (DCEs) to enhance the empirical foundation of ABMs. The DCE method is based on random utility theory and therefore has the pote…
Information technology and renewable energy — Modelling, simulation, decision support and environmental assessment
Modeling Metal Stocks and Flows: A Review of Dynamic Material Flow Analysis Methods
Dynamic material flow analysis (MFA) is a frequently used method to assess past, present, and future stocks and flows of metals in the anthroposphere. Over the past fifteen years, dynamic MFA has contributed to increased knowledge about the quantities, qualities, and locations of metal-containing goods. This article presents a literature review of the methodologies applied in 60 dynamic MFAs of metals. The review is based on a standardized model …
Assessing Internet energy intensity: A review of methods and results
The Direct Energy Demand of Internet Data Flows
The direct energy demand of Internet data flows can be assessed using a variety of methodological approaches (top‐down, bottom‐up, or hybrid/model based) and different definitions of system boundaries. Because of this diversity, results reported in the literature differ by up to two orders of magnitude and are difficult to compare. We present a first assessment that uses a pure bottom‐up approach and a system boundary that includes only transmiss…
Prospective Impacts of Electronic Textiles on Recycling and Disposal
Environmental impacts of lighting technologies — Life cycle assessment and sensitivity analysis
Sustainable Development and Ict Interpreted in a Natural Science Context: The resulting research questions for the social sciences
Sustainable development (SD) is a political concept with a strong normative component. In this article, we show which implications follow from this normative component if it is interpreted in a natural science context. We conclude that from a natural science point of view, a far-reaching dematerialization of consumption is a necessary condition for SD. We further conclude that information and communication technologies can only support SD if they…
Scenario Analysis: Exploring the Macroeconomic Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
During the past decade, several macroeconomic studies on the potentials of information and communication technology (ICT) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been published. The mitigation potentials identified in them vary to a high degree, mainly because they are not consistently defined and diverse methodologies are applied. The characteristics of ICT—exceptional dynamics of innovation and diffusion, social embedment and cross‐sector…
Impact assessment and policy learning in the European Commission
End-of-life impacts of pervasive computing
RFID technology is one of the forerunners of pervasive computing, and as such is expected to play an important role in many applications of daily life, especially in the form of smart labels. However, market investigations and a material analysis of a smart label shows that the use of smart labels does not considerably affect the recycling or disposal of packaging materials, if precautionary measures are taken, such as eco-design and, where neces…
Electronic waste—an emerging risk
The end of life treatment of second generation mobile phone networks: Strategies to reduce the environmental impact
Smart labels in municipal solid waste — a case for the Precautionary Principle
Sustainable development and information technology
Environmental impacts of an international conference
Impact assessment and policy learning in the European Commission
Digitalization and Sustainability: A Call for a Digital Green Deal
The relation between digitalization and environmental sustainability is ambiguous. There is potential of various digital technologies to slow down the transgression of planetary boundaries. Yet resource and energy demand for digital hardware production and use of data-intensive applications is of substantial size. The world over, there is no comprehensive regulation that addresses opportunities and risks of digital technology for sustainability. …
Electronic waste—an emerging risk
The digital sharing economy: A confluence of technical and social sharing
With the diffusion of digital technologies, new forms of sharing have emerged called ‘the sharing economy’. Digitalization has been the enabler for covering a broad range of sharable resources (technical aspect of sharing) and for operating beyond the limits of small groups and personal relationships (social aspect of sharing). This two-fold digital transition of sharing has enabled unprecedented efficiency in coordinating access to resources. It…
An agent-based model of wood markets: Scenario analysis
Information technology and renewable energy — Modelling, simulation, decision support and environmental assessment
Environmental impacts of lighting technologies — Life cycle assessment and sensitivity analysis
The end of life treatment of second generation mobile phone networks: Strategies to reduce the environmental impact
Smart labels in municipal solid waste — a case for the Precautionary Principle
Environmental impacts of an international conference
Sources of variation in life cycle assessments of smartphones and tablet computers
Sustainable development and information technology
Sustainable development and information technology
Environmental impacts of an international conference
End-of-life impacts of pervasive computing
RFID technology is one of the forerunners of pervasive computing, and as such is expected to play an important role in many applications of daily life, especially in the form of smart labels. However, market investigations and a material analysis of a smart label shows that the use of smart labels does not considerably affect the recycling or disposal of packaging materials, if precautionary measures are taken, such as eco-design and, where neces…
Electronic waste—an emerging risk
The end of life treatment of second generation mobile phone networks: Strategies to reduce the environmental impact
Smart labels in municipal solid waste — a case for the Precautionary Principle
Impact assessment and policy learning in the European Commission
Sustainable Development and Ict Interpreted in a Natural Science Context: The resulting research questions for the social sciences
Sustainable development (SD) is a political concept with a strong normative component. In this article, we show which implications follow from this normative component if it is interpreted in a natural science context. We conclude that from a natural science point of view, a far-reaching dematerialization of consumption is a necessary condition for SD. We further conclude that information and communication technologies can only support SD if they…
Scenario Analysis: Exploring the Macroeconomic Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
During the past decade, several macroeconomic studies on the potentials of information and communication technology (ICT) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been published. The mitigation potentials identified in them vary to a high degree, mainly because they are not consistently defined and diverse methodologies are applied. The characteristics of ICT—exceptional dynamics of innovation and diffusion, social embedment and cross‐sector…
Prospective Impacts of Electronic Textiles on Recycling and Disposal
Environmental impacts of lighting technologies — Life cycle assessment and sensitivity analysis
The Direct Energy Demand of Internet Data Flows
The direct energy demand of Internet data flows can be assessed using a variety of methodological approaches (top‐down, bottom‐up, or hybrid/model based) and different definitions of system boundaries. Because of this diversity, results reported in the literature differ by up to two orders of magnitude and are difficult to compare. We present a first assessment that uses a pure bottom‐up approach and a system boundary that includes only transmiss…
Modeling Metal Stocks and Flows: A Review of Dynamic Material Flow Analysis Methods
Dynamic material flow analysis (MFA) is a frequently used method to assess past, present, and future stocks and flows of metals in the anthroposphere. Over the past fifteen years, dynamic MFA has contributed to increased knowledge about the quantities, qualities, and locations of metal-containing goods. This article presents a literature review of the methodologies applied in 60 dynamic MFAs of metals. The review is based on a standardized model …
Assessing Internet energy intensity: A review of methods and results
Information technology and renewable energy — Modelling, simulation, decision support and environmental assessment
Enhancing Agent-Based Models with Discrete Choice Experiments
Agent-based modeling is a promising method to investigate market dynamics, as it allows modeling the behavior of all market participants individually. Integrating empirical data in the agents' decision model can improve the validity of agent-based models (ABMs). We present an approach of using discrete choice experiments (DCEs) to enhance the empirical foundation of ABMs. The DCE method is based on random utility theory and therefore has the pote…
Service Lifetime, Storage Time, and Disposal Pathways of Electronic Equipment: A Swiss Case Study
Product lifetime is an essential aspect of dynamic material flow analyses and has been modeled using lifetime distribution functions, mostly average lifetimes. Existing data regarding the lifetime of electronic equipment (EE) are based on diverging definitions of lifetime as well as different temporal and regional scopes. After its active use, EE is often not disposed of immediately, but remains in storage for some time. Specific data on the shar…
An agent-based model of wood markets: Scenario analysis
Sources of variation in life cycle assessments of smartphones and tablet computers
The digital sharing economy: A confluence of technical and social sharing
With the diffusion of digital technologies, new forms of sharing have emerged called ‘the sharing economy’. Digitalization has been the enabler for covering a broad range of sharable resources (technical aspect of sharing) and for operating beyond the limits of small groups and personal relationships (social aspect of sharing). This two-fold digital transition of sharing has enabled unprecedented efficiency in coordinating access to resources. It…
Consumer-oriented interventions to extend smartphones’ service lifetime
A promising strategy to reduce smartphones' environmental footprint is to increase their service lifetime, thereby reducing the demand for resource-intensive production of new devices. Most of the existing literature focuses on production-oriented measures, such as improving repairability, but what remains missing is a systematic overview of consumer-oriented interventions to extend smartphones' service lifetime. In this study, we applied the con…
A review of assessments of the greenhouse gas footprint and abatement potential of information and communication technology
Various studies have assessed the GHG footprint of the ICT sector (ICT end-user devices, data centers, telecommunication networks) and the potential of ICT use cases (e.g. smart homes, ride sharing) to avoid GHG emissions in other sectors (e.g buildings, transport). We systematically compare relevant studies from the last ten years and discuss the robustness of results in view of the methods used. The results show that the ICT sector causes betwe…
Digitalization and Sustainability: A Call for a Digital Green Deal
The relation between digitalization and environmental sustainability is ambiguous. There is potential of various digital technologies to slow down the transgression of planetary boundaries. Yet resource and energy demand for digital hardware production and use of data-intensive applications is of substantial size. The world over, there is no comprehensive regulation that addresses opportunities and risks of digital technology for sustainability. …
Computer Science (17 works) · Green IT and Sustainability (14 works) · Business (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Engineering (11 works) · Environmental Science (10 works) · Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (10 works) · Environmental economics (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Mathematics (6 works)