Michael Zwicky Hauschild

Biographic Data

ID6275725
NAMEMichael Zwicky Hauschild
GIVEN NAMESMichael Zwicky
FAMILY NAMEHauschild
SIGNATUREHAUSCHILD M Z
AFFILIATIONSTechnical University of Denmark
ORCID0000-0002-8331-7390
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS20
WORKS AS AUTHOR29
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Bridging Global Sustainability Objectives With Corporate Reporting Standards

    Open AccessChonlawan Thammaraksa, Caroline Aggestam Pontoppidan et al.ARTICLESustainable Development2026

    Given the complexity of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aligning corporate sustainability with them can be challenging. Drawing on systems thinking, this study examines how the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) align with the SDGs and bridge macro‐level global goals with firm‐level metrics. The analysis revealed 429 of 1009 ESRS data points correspond with 71 of 248 SDG indicators, demonstrating the potential to enhance…

  • Beyond net zero climate targets

    Open AccessAnders Bjørn, Peter Fantke et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2026

    Recent years have seen a wave of net zero targets for greenhouse gas emissions. These represent translations of the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below 2 °C to targets for central actors, such as countries, cities and companies. Net zero climate targets hold the potential of a paradigm shift in how individual actors pursue sustainability, away from incremental improvements and towards sufficient reductions in environment…

  • Evaluating prospective environmental impacts and market integration for enzymatic sugar beet pulp treatment against planetary boundaries

    Open AccessGeorgios Manthos, Γεώργιος Μάνθος et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Impact Assessment…2026References: 65

    Modern enzymatic biorefineries present promising potential for global decarbonization, offering value-added products from biological resources. However, their role within a sustainable societal trajectory remains unclear, particularly when evaluated against prospective environmental boundaries. This uncertainty stems from the lack of a robust methodology for allocating future impacts to biorefinery products. To bridge this gap, this study present…

  • Advancing absolute environmental sustainability assessment

    Open AccessAndrea Paulillo, Esther Sanyé‐Mengual et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2025

  • Approaches for aggregating data from the regional to the global level

    Open AccessEldbjørg Blikra Vea, Katherine Richardson et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    A number of initiatives attempt to delimit the safe operating space (SOS) for human pressures on the Earth system, including the Planetary Boundaries framework. In some cases, data describing regional status are spatially aggregated to provide a global assessment. Several aggregation approaches can be observed, and the chosen approach may impact the conclusions. This study systematically reviews approaches of aggregating regional environmental bo…

  • Evaluating mitigation strategies for building stocks against absolute climate targets

    Open AccessLise Hvid Horup, Pernille K Ohms et al.ARTICLEBuildings and Cities2024References: 4

    With the growing urgency of addressing climate change it is increasingly important that decision makers at all levels are equipped to take efficient mitigation actions. This research evaluates the potential of four mitigation strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the building stock based on a case study, and these are further evaluated in terms of alignment with the remaining global emission budget and the planetary boundary for glob…

  • Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe

    Open AccessEtienne Berthet, Julien Lavalley et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2024Cited by: 4References: 9

    Advanced technologies are inherently dependent on critical minerals and their related metals. The mining extraction of these critical minerals leads to significant social and environmental impacts that extend beyond the regions where those advanced technologies are ultimately used. This study explores the global socio-environmental challenges arising from the European Climate Law's aim for net-zero greenhouse emissions by 2050, focusing on the EU…

  • Reflecting the importance of human needs fulfilment in absolute sustainability assessments

    Open AccessMia Heide, Michael Zwicky Hauschild et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2023

    Absolute environmental sustainability assessments (AESAs) evaluate whether the environmental impact of a product system is within its share of a safe operating space as determined by biophysical sustainability limits such as the planetary boundaries (PBs). The choice of sharing principle has significant influence on the result of an AESA, and any studies call for further research on how to share the safe operating space in an operational way that…

  • Pathways to sustainable plastics

    Open AccessMichael Zwicky Hauschild, Anders BjørnARTICLENature Sustainability2023Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities

    Open AccessLinn Persson, Bethanie Carney Almroth et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Technology2022

    We submit that the safe operating space of the planetary boundary of novel entities is exceeded since annual production and releases are increasing at a pace that outstrips the global capacity for assessment and monitoring. The novel entities boundary in the planetary boundaries framework refers to entities that are novel in a geological sense and that could have large-scale impacts that threaten the integrity of Earth system processes. We review…

  • Identification of dissipative emissions for improved assessment of metal resources in life cycle assessment

    Open AccessMikołaj Owsianiak, Lauran Van Oers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2022

    Environmental dissipation is a novel approach to account for impacts from mineral resources. In contrast to all other resource‐related life cycle impact assessment methods, which use data on extractions as input to calculation of indicator scores, environmental dissipation is characterized solely through emissions to the environment. Making environmental dissipation work as a viable resource use impact category in life cycle assessment requires, …

  • Sharing the safe operating space

    Open AccessAnjila Wegge Hjalsted, Alexis Laurent et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2021

    In the light of increasing human pressures on the Earth system, the issue of sharing in the face of scarcity is more pressing than ever. The planetary boundary framework identifies and quantifies nine environmental boundaries and corresponding human pressures. However, when aiming to make the concept operational for decision support it is unclear how this safe operating space (SOS) within each of the planetary boundaries should be shared. This st…

  • Absolute environmental sustainability assessment of a Danish utility company relative to the Planetary Boundaries

    Open AccessMorten Ryberg, Troels Kærgaard Bjerre et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2021

    Increasing environmental pressure from production and consumption of products and services is starting to affect Earth System stability. Thus, the Planetary Boundaries framework introduced a set of absolute boundaries for keeping the Earth System stable and delimiting a safe operating space for humanity. The sum of environmental pressures associated with human activities should not exceed the safe operating space. This includes utility companies …

  • Lc‐impact

    Open AccessFrancesca Verones, Stefanie Hellweg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2020

    Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) is a lively field of research, and data and models are continuously improved in terms of impact pathways covered, reliability, and spatial detail. However, many of these advancements are scattered throughout the scientific literature, making it difficult for practitioners to apply the new models. Here, we present the LC-IMPACT method that provides characterization factors at the damage level for 11 impact categ…

  • Addressing environmental sustainability of biochemicals

    Open AccessÓlafur Ögmundarsson, Markus J Herrgård et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020References: 1

  • A Framework for Development and Communication of Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment Methods

    Open AccessAnders Bjørn, Katherine Richardson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2019

    An absolute environmental sustainability assessment (AESA) addresses whether a production or consumption activity can be considered environmentally sustainable in an absolute sense. This involves a comparison of its environmental pressure to its allocated environmental carrying capacity. AESA methods have been developed in multiple academic fields, each using their own set of concepts and terms with little communication across the fields. A recen…

  • Environmental sustainable decision making– The need and obstacles for integration of LCA into decision analysis

    Open AccessYan Dong, Simona Miraglia et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2018Cited by: 3References: 3

  • Pursuing necessary reductions in embedded GHG emissions of developed nations

    Open AccessAnders Bjørn, Pradip P Kalbar et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2018Cited by: 6References: 4

  • Combining Eco‐Efficiency and Eco‐Effectiveness for Continuous Loop Beverage Packaging Systems

    Open AccessMonia Niero, Michael Zwicky Hauschild et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2017

    Eco‐efficiency (i.e., increasing value while reducing resource use and pollution) can with advantage be combined with eco‐effectiveness (i.e., maximizing the benefits to ecological and economical systems) to address the challenges posed by the circular economy in the design of circular industrial systems. We present a framework combining life cycle assessment (LCA) and the Cradle to Cradle® (C2C) certification program for the development of conti…

  • Surveying the Environmental Footprint of Urban Food Consumption

    Open AccessB Goldstein, Morten Birkved et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2017

    Assessments of urban metabolism (UM) are well situated to identify the scale, components, and direction of urban and energy flows in cities and have been instrumental in benchmarking and monitoring the key levers of urban environmental pressure, such as transport, space conditioning, and electricity. Hitherto, urban food consumption has garnered scant attention both in UM accounting (typically lumped with “biomass”) and on the urban policy agenda…

  • Response to Comment on “Weighting and Aggregation in Life Cycle Assessment

    Open AccessPradip P Kalbar, Pradip Kalbar et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2017

    We are pleased to take this opportunity to respond to Mr. Seager's and Ms. Prado's comment on our article “Weighting and Aggregation in Life Cycle Assessment: Do Present Aggregated Single Scores Provide Correct Decision Support?” (Kalbar et al. 2016). This will provide us an obviously needed opportunity to further clarify our thoughts and points of view on the issue of weighting and aggregation in life cycle assessment (LCA) and some of the conce…

  • Weighting and Aggregation in Life Cycle Assessment

    Open AccessPradip P Kalbar, Morten Birkved et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2017

    This study investigates the prevailing practice of obtaining single scores in life cycle assessment (LCA) and identifies potential lacunas in impact assessment methodology related to the results of aggregation into endpoints and single scores. In order to conduct this investigation, a detailed approach was adopted to facilitate identification of three main problems related to the single‐score calculation approach. The prevailing ReCiPe single‐sco…

  • Confronting Uncertainty in Life Cycle Assessment Used for Decision Support

    Open AccessIvan Tengbjerg Herrmann, Michael Zwicky Hauschild et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2014

    The aim of this article is to help confront uncertainty in life cycle assessments (LCAs) used for decision support. LCAs offer a quantitative approach to assess environmental effects of products, technologies, and services and are conducted by an LCA practitioner or analyst (AN) to support the decision maker (DM) in making the best possible choice for the environment. At present, some DMs do not trust the LCA to be a reliable decision‐support too…

  • Life Cycle Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing

    Open AccessChristoph Herrmann, Michael Hauschild et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2014

  • Absolute versus Relative Environmental Sustainability

    Open AccessAnders Bjørn, Michael Zwicky HauschildARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2013

    The cradle‐to‐cradle (C2C) concept has emerged as an alternative to the more established eco‐efficiency concept based on life cycle assessment (LCA). The two concepts differ fundamentally in that eco‐efficiency aims to reduce the negative environmental footprint of human activities while C2C attempts to increase the positive footprint. This article discusses the strengths and weaknesses of each concept and suggests how they may learn from each ot…