Matthew J Eckelman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6084267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew J Eckelman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Eckelman |
| SIGNATURE | ECKELMAN M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0595-3682 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Facing record-breaking threats from delayed action
Interdependence in rare earth element supply between China and the United States helps stabilize global supply chains
The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: The imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms
The challenge of solid waste on Small Islands: Proposing a Socio-metabolic Research (SMR) framework
The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Health at the mercy of fossil fuels
Appending material flows to the National Energy Modeling System (Nems) for projecting the physical economy of the United States
Socio-metabolic risk and tipping points on islands
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face enormous sustainability challenges such as heavy reliance on imports to meet basic needs, tenuous resource availability, coastal squeeze, and reduced waste absorption capacity. At the same time, the adverse effects of global environmental change such as global warming, extreme events, and outbreaks of pandemics significantly hinder SIDS’ progress towards sustainable development. This paper makes a concep…
The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Code red for a healthy future
The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Responding to converging crises
Pollution inequality 50 years after the Clean Air Act: The need for hyperlocal data and action
Effective solutions require integration of improved data, technology innovations, community engagement, and environmental justice
LCAart: Communicating industrial ecology at a human scale
This Forum piece describes a collaborative project between engineering and architecture to visualize some of the most influential results from industrial ecology using human‐scale, photorealistic images that are quantitatively accurate. Our goal was to apply visualization theories and practices from art and architecture to address a major communication problem in our field: though inspirational in concept, in practice much industrial ecology rese…
The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate
The Lancet Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and providing an independent assessment of the delivery of commitments made by governments worldwide under the Paris Agreement.
Estimated Global Disease Burden From US Health Care Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Objectives. To quantify the increased disease burden caused by US health care sector life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of 614 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents in 2013. Methods. We screened for health damage factors that linked GHG emissions to disease burdens. We selected 5 factors, based on appropriate temporal modeling scales, which reflect a range of possible GHG emissions scenarios. We applied these factors to health …
Environmental Impacts of the U.S. Health Care System and Effects on Public Health
The U.S. health care sector is highly interconnected with industrial activities that emit much of the nation's pollution to air, water, and soils. We estimate emissions directly and indirectly attributable to the health care sector, and potential harmful effects on public health. Negative environmental and public health outcomes were estimated through economic input-output life cycle assessment (EIOLCA) modeling using National Health Expenditures…
Criticality of Seven Specialty Metals
Evaluating metal criticality is a topic that addresses future metals supply and that has inspired research in corporations, academic institutions, and governments. In this article, we apply a comprehensive criticality methodology to seven specialty metals—scandium (Sc), strontium (Sr), antimony (Sb), barium (Ba), mercury (Hg), thallium (Tl), and bismuth (Bi)—at the national and global levels for 2008. The results are presented along with uncertai…
Criticality of the Geological Zinc, Tin, and Lead Family
Concerns about the future availability and continuity of metal supplies have triggered research efforts to define and assess metal criticality. In this study, we apply a comprehensive methodology to the elements of the geological zinc, tin, and lead family: zinc (Zn); germanium (Ge); cadmium (Cd); indium (In); tin (Sn); and lead (Pb). Zn, Sn, and Pb have played important roles in various technological sectors for centuries, whereas Ge, Cd, and In…
Island Waste Management Systems: Statistics, Challenges, and Opportunities for Applied Industrial Ecology
Island waste management professionals are faced with limited land resources, high energy costs, large seasonal fluctuations in waste volumes, and complex social and political dynamics that stem from their often closely knit societies. These and other factors can discourage typical waste management practices, but they also provide opportunities for island governments and businesses to explore alternative technologies and policies that suit their p…
Life cycle assessment in support of sustainable transportation
In our rapidly urbanizing world, sustainable transportation presents a major challenge. Transportation decisions have considerable direct impacts on urban society, both positive and negative, for example through changes in transit times and economic productivity, urban connectivity, tailpipe emissions and attendant air quality concerns, traffic accidents, and noise pollution. Much research has been dedicated to quantifying these direct impacts fo…
Water flows, energy demand, and market analysis of the informal water sector in Kisumu, Kenya
Construction Matters: Comparing Environmental Impacts of Building Modular and Conventional Homes in the United States
Modular construction practices are used in many countries as an alternative to conventional on‐site construction for residential homes. While modular home construction has certain advantages in terms of material and time efficiency, it requires a different infrastructure than conventional home construction, and the overall environmental trade‐offs between the two methods have been unclear. This study uses life cycle assessment to quantify the env…
Exploring the Global Journey of Nickel with Markov Chain Models
Markov chain (MC) modeling is a versatile tool in policy analysis and has been applied in several forms to analyze resource flows. This article builds on previous discussions of the relationship among absorbing Markov chains (AMCs), material flow analysis (MFA), and input‐output (IO) analysis, and presents a full‐scale application of MC modeling for a particular globally relevant, nonrenewable resource, namely nickel. The MC model presented here …
Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
Using Material Flow Analysis to Illuminate Long‐Term Waste Management Solutions in Oahu, Hawaii
Home to the capital city and nearly a million people, the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii, USA, is highly dependent on external resources. Over the past decade, large‐scale agricultural production has diminished dramatically, leaving the island greatly reliant on imports for food and most other basic goods. A strong tourism sector and high levels of affluence contribute to per capita municipal waste generation rates exceeding all other U.S.…
Toward Green Nano: E ‐factor Analysis of Several Nanomaterial Syntheses
Commercial and research interest in nanotechnology has exploded in recent years, with nearly US$9 billion in investment from public and private sources in 2005. While the list of potential applications for nanotechnologies continues to grow, there is increasing pressure from governments and researchers alike to understand the implications of this new class of materials. The emerging field of green nano applies green chemistry and engineering prin…
The World's Scavengers by Martin Medina
The challenge of solid waste on Small Islands: Proposing a Socio-metabolic Research (SMR) framework
Estimated Global Disease Burden From US Health Care Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Objectives. To quantify the increased disease burden caused by US health care sector life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of 614 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents in 2013. Methods. We screened for health damage factors that linked GHG emissions to disease burdens. We selected 5 factors, based on appropriate temporal modeling scales, which reflect a range of possible GHG emissions scenarios. We applied these factors to health …
Water flows, energy demand, and market analysis of the informal water sector in Kisumu, Kenya
Toward Green Nano: E ‐factor Analysis of Several Nanomaterial Syntheses
Commercial and research interest in nanotechnology has exploded in recent years, with nearly US$9 billion in investment from public and private sources in 2005. While the list of potential applications for nanotechnologies continues to grow, there is increasing pressure from governments and researchers alike to understand the implications of this new class of materials. The emerging field of green nano applies green chemistry and engineering prin…
The World's Scavengers by Martin Medina
Markov chain modeling of the global technological lifetime of copper
Using Material Flow Analysis to Illuminate Long‐Term Waste Management Solutions in Oahu, Hawaii
Home to the capital city and nearly a million people, the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii, USA, is highly dependent on external resources. Over the past decade, large‐scale agricultural production has diminished dramatically, leaving the island greatly reliant on imports for food and most other basic goods. A strong tourism sector and high levels of affluence contribute to per capita municipal waste generation rates exceeding all other U.S.…
Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
Construction Matters: Comparing Environmental Impacts of Building Modular and Conventional Homes in the United States
Modular construction practices are used in many countries as an alternative to conventional on‐site construction for residential homes. While modular home construction has certain advantages in terms of material and time efficiency, it requires a different infrastructure than conventional home construction, and the overall environmental trade‐offs between the two methods have been unclear. This study uses life cycle assessment to quantify the env…
Exploring the Global Journey of Nickel with Markov Chain Models
Markov chain (MC) modeling is a versatile tool in policy analysis and has been applied in several forms to analyze resource flows. This article builds on previous discussions of the relationship among absorbing Markov chains (AMCs), material flow analysis (MFA), and input‐output (IO) analysis, and presents a full‐scale application of MC modeling for a particular globally relevant, nonrenewable resource, namely nickel. The MC model presented here …
Life cycle assessment in support of sustainable transportation
In our rapidly urbanizing world, sustainable transportation presents a major challenge. Transportation decisions have considerable direct impacts on urban society, both positive and negative, for example through changes in transit times and economic productivity, urban connectivity, tailpipe emissions and attendant air quality concerns, traffic accidents, and noise pollution. Much research has been dedicated to quantifying these direct impacts fo…
Water flows, energy demand, and market analysis of the informal water sector in Kisumu, Kenya
Island Waste Management Systems: Statistics, Challenges, and Opportunities for Applied Industrial Ecology
Island waste management professionals are faced with limited land resources, high energy costs, large seasonal fluctuations in waste volumes, and complex social and political dynamics that stem from their often closely knit societies. These and other factors can discourage typical waste management practices, but they also provide opportunities for island governments and businesses to explore alternative technologies and policies that suit their p…
Criticality of the Geological Zinc, Tin, and Lead Family
Concerns about the future availability and continuity of metal supplies have triggered research efforts to define and assess metal criticality. In this study, we apply a comprehensive methodology to the elements of the geological zinc, tin, and lead family: zinc (Zn); germanium (Ge); cadmium (Cd); indium (In); tin (Sn); and lead (Pb). Zn, Sn, and Pb have played important roles in various technological sectors for centuries, whereas Ge, Cd, and In…
Environmental Impacts of the U.S. Health Care System and Effects on Public Health
The U.S. health care sector is highly interconnected with industrial activities that emit much of the nation's pollution to air, water, and soils. We estimate emissions directly and indirectly attributable to the health care sector, and potential harmful effects on public health. Negative environmental and public health outcomes were estimated through economic input-output life cycle assessment (EIOLCA) modeling using National Health Expenditures…
Criticality of Seven Specialty Metals
Evaluating metal criticality is a topic that addresses future metals supply and that has inspired research in corporations, academic institutions, and governments. In this article, we apply a comprehensive criticality methodology to seven specialty metals—scandium (Sc), strontium (Sr), antimony (Sb), barium (Ba), mercury (Hg), thallium (Tl), and bismuth (Bi)—at the national and global levels for 2008. The results are presented along with uncertai…
Estimated Global Disease Burden From US Health Care Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Objectives. To quantify the increased disease burden caused by US health care sector life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of 614 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents in 2013. Methods. We screened for health damage factors that linked GHG emissions to disease burdens. We selected 5 factors, based on appropriate temporal modeling scales, which reflect a range of possible GHG emissions scenarios. We applied these factors to health …
The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate
The Lancet Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and providing an independent assessment of the delivery of commitments made by governments worldwide under the Paris Agreement.
LCAart: Communicating industrial ecology at a human scale
This Forum piece describes a collaborative project between engineering and architecture to visualize some of the most influential results from industrial ecology using human‐scale, photorealistic images that are quantitatively accurate. Our goal was to apply visualization theories and practices from art and architecture to address a major communication problem in our field: though inspirational in concept, in practice much industrial ecology rese…
The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Code red for a healthy future
The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Responding to converging crises
Pollution inequality 50 years after the Clean Air Act: The need for hyperlocal data and action
Effective solutions require integration of improved data, technology innovations, community engagement, and environmental justice
The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Health at the mercy of fossil fuels
Appending material flows to the National Energy Modeling System (Nems) for projecting the physical economy of the United States
Socio-metabolic risk and tipping points on islands
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face enormous sustainability challenges such as heavy reliance on imports to meet basic needs, tenuous resource availability, coastal squeeze, and reduced waste absorption capacity. At the same time, the adverse effects of global environmental change such as global warming, extreme events, and outbreaks of pandemics significantly hinder SIDS’ progress towards sustainable development. This paper makes a concep…
The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: The imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms
The challenge of solid waste on Small Islands: Proposing a Socio-metabolic Research (SMR) framework
The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Facing record-breaking threats from delayed action
Economics (14 works) · Engineering (13 works) · Environmental Science (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Business (10 works) · Climate Change and Health Impacts (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Sustainability (8 works) · Climate change (7 works) · Environmental planning (7 works)