Helmut Rechberger

Biographic Data

ID6388231
NAMEHelmut Rechberger
GIVEN NAMESHelmut
FAMILY NAMERechberger
SIGNATURERECHBERGER H
AFFILIATIONSTU Wien
ORCID0000-0002-7723-0635
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Austrian nitrogen budget following Unece guidance

    Open AccessIka Djukic, Carina Broneder et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Human activity over the past century has greatly disrupted the natural nitrogen (N) balance, harming health and the environment. Sustainable nitrogen management requires cross-sectoral governance, but studies tracking nitrogen flows across sectors are limited. This study assesses cross-sectoral sources, flows, and sinks of reactive nitrogen (Nr) in Austria, identifying direct N r inputs and emitting sectors. Using the ‘UNECE-Guidance Document on …

  • Closing the waste gap

    Open AccessIris K M Yu, Helmut Rechberger et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022

  • Information Content, Complexity, and Uncertainty in Material Flow Analysis

    Open AccessOliver Schwab, Helmut RechbergerARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2018

    Material Flow Analysis (MFA) is a useful method for modeling, understanding, and optimizing sociometabolic systems. Among others, MFAs can be distinguished by two general system properties: First, they differ in their complexity, which depends on system structure and size. Second, they differ in their inherent uncertainty, which arises from limited data quality. In this article, uncertainty and complexity in MFA are approached from a systems pers…

  • Quantitative Evaluation of Data Quality in Regional Material Flow Analysis

    Open AccessOliver Schwab, David Laner et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2017

    A method for quantitative evaluation of data quality in regional material flow analysis (MFA) is presented. The principal idea is that data quality is a multidimensional problem that cannot be judged by individual characteristics such as the data source, given that data from official statistics may not be per se of good quality and expert estimations may not be per se of bad quality, respectively. It appears that MFA data are never totally accura…

  • GIS‐based Analysis of Vienna's Material Stock in Buildings

    Open AccessFritz Kleemann, Jakob Lederer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2017

    The building stock is not only a huge consumer of resources (for its construction and operation), but also represents a significant source for the future supply of metallic and mineral resources. This article describes how material stocks in buildings and their spatial distribution can be analyzed on a city level. In particular, the building structure (buildings differentiated by construction period and utilization) of Vienna is analyzed by joini…

  • A Data Characterization Framework for Material Flow Analysis

    Open AccessOliver Schwab, Ottavia Zoboli et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2017

    The validity of material flow analyses (MFAs) depends on the available information base, that is, the quality and quantity of available data. MFA data are cross‐disciplinary, can have varying formats and qualities, and originate from heterogeneous sources, such as official statistics, scientific models, or expert estimations. Statistical methods for data evaluation are most often inadequate, because MFA data are typically isolated values rather t…

  • A Novel Approach to Characterize Data Uncertainty in Material Flow Analysis and its Application to Plastics Flows in Austria

    Open AccessDavid Laner, Julia Feketitsch et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2016

    Material flow analysis (MFA) is widely used to investigate flows and stocks of resources or pollutants in a defined system. Data availability to quantify material flows on a national or global level is often limited owing to data scarcity or lacking data. MFA input data are therefore considered inherently uncertain. In this work, an approach to characterize the uncertainty of MFA input data is presented and applied to a case study on plastics flo…

  • Added Values of Time Series in Material Flow Analysis: The Austrian Phosphorus Budget from 1990 to 2011

    Open AccessOttavia Zoboli, David Laner et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2016

    Material flow analysis is a tool that is increasingly used as a foundation for resource management and environmental protection. This tool is primarily applied in a static manner to individual years, ignoring the impact of time on the material budgets. In this study, a detailed multiyear model of the Austrian phosphorus budget covering the period 1990–2011 was built to investigate its behavior over time and test the hypothesis that a multiyear ap…

  • Prospecting and Exploring Anthropogenic Resource Deposits: The Case Study of Vienna's Subway Network

    Open AccessJakob Lederer, Fritz Kleemann et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2016

    Urban mining is seen as a key strategy for the recovery of secondary raw materials from the built environment. Although large material stocks have been reported in infrastructure networks, their actual recoverability over time has received little attention so far. This article presents a case study on the prospection and exploration of the anthropogenic resources deposited in Vienna's subway network. After quantifying the built‐in materials in th…

  • Systematic Evaluation of Uncertainty in Material Flow Analysis

    Open AccessDavid Laner, Helmut Rechberger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2014

    Material flow analysis (MFA) is a tool to investigate material flows and stocks in defined systems as a basis for resource management or environmental pollution control. Because of the diverse nature of sources and the varying quality and availability of data, MFA results are inherently uncertain. Uncertainty analyses have received increasing attention in recent MFA studies, but systematic approaches for selection of appropriate uncertainty tools…

  • Uncertainty in Material Flow Analysis

    Open AccessHelmut Rechberger, Oliver Cencic et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2014

  • The contemporary European copper cycle: Statistical entropy analysis

    Open AccessHelmut Rechberger, T E GraedelARTICLEEcological Economics2002

  • The contemporary European copper cycle: 1 Year Stocks and Flows

    Open AccessSabrina Spatari, M Bertram et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2002

  • The contemporary European copper cycle: Waste management subsystem

    Open AccessM Bertram, T E Graedel et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2002

  • The contemporary European copper cycle: The characterization of technological copper cycles

    Open AccessT E Graedel, M Bertram et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2002