Ester van der Voet

Biographic Data

ID6454724
NAMEEster van der Voet
GIVEN NAMESEster
FAMILY NAMEvan der Voet
SIGNATUREVAN DER VOET E
AFFILIATIONSLeiden University
ORCID0000-0003-0788-9570
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS28
WORKS AS AUTHOR30
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Material circularity strategies in the stock-flow-service nexus of buildings, transport, electricity, machinery, furniture, and appliances

    Open AccessMartijn van Engelenburg, Peter Berrill et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2026

    Increasing global population and rising levels of wealth are raising demands for services such as shelter and mobility, leading to greater resource use and environmental impacts. Circular strategies can reduce the resources required for these services. However, the potential of circular strategies to reduce material demand is rarely quantified. Here, we present a method to link service, product, and resource use with circular material reduction s…

  • The urban mine of the Netherlands

    Open AccessEster van der Voet, Janneke van Oorschot et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2025

    Resources are essential for humanity's well‐being and development. At the same time, resources lay at the heart of many environmental problems. A sustainable resource use facilitates development but reduces environmental problems. This apparent contradiction can be solved by moving toward a circular economy: keeping resources, once extracted, in use for as long as possible. The services fulfilled by the in‐use stocks of resources can thus be main…

  • Toward a low‐carbon and circular building sector

    Open AccessJanneke van Oorschot, Benjamin Sprecher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2023

    Buildings are an important part of society's environmental impacts, both in the construction and in the use phase. As the energy performance of buildings improve, construction materials become more important as a cause of environmental impact. Less attention has been given to those materials. We explore, as an alternative for conventional buildings, the use of biobased materials and circular building practices. In addition to building design, we …

  • Alternatives for natural‐gas‐based heating systems

    Open AccessTeun Johannes Verhagen, Ester van der Voet et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2021

    The heating of buildings currently produces 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable heating technologies can reduce heating‐related CO 2 emissions by up to 90%. We present a Python‐based GIS model to analyze the environmental and financial impact of strategies to reduce heating‐related CO 2 emissions of residential buildings. The city‐wide implementation of three alternatives to natural gas are evaluated: high‐temperature heating netwo…

  • Modeling copper demand in China up to 2050

    Open AccessDi Dong, Arnold Tukker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2019

    In this paper, we develop a dynamic stock model and scenario analysis involving a bottom‐up approach to analyze copper demand in China from 2005 to 2050 based on government and related sectoral policies. The results show that in the short‐term, China's copper industry cannot achieve a completely circular economy without additional measures. Aggregate and per capita copper demand are both set to increase substantially, especially in infrastructure…

  • Environmental Implications of Future Demand Scenarios for Metals

    Open AccessEster van der Voet, Lauran Van Oers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2019

    In this paper, we develop a method to assess the environmental impacts of metal scenarios. The method is life cycle based, but enables forward looking and upscaling. The method aims at translating metal demand scenarios into technology‐specific supply scenarios, necessary to make the translation into environmental impacts. To illustrate the different steps of the methodology, we apply it to the case of seven major metals. Demand scenarios for sev…

  • Deriving European Tantalum Flows Using Trade and Production Statistics

    Open AccessSebastiaan Deetman, Lauran Van Oers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2018

    Even though tantalum has a high economic importance and is associated with armed conflict, the use of tantalum throughout the supply chain of importing economies is not well understood. This article adds to existing qualitative descriptions of the tantalum supply chain by performing a quantified substance flow analysis (SFA) of tantalum for Europe in the year 2007. The exercise is meant to show how readily available statistical information could …

  • Resource nexus perspectives towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

    Open AccessRaimund Bleischwitz, Catalina Spataru et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2018Cited by: 11References: 17

  • Assessing environmental implications associated with global copper demand and supply scenarios from 2010 to 2050

    Open AccessKoen Kuipers, Koen J J Kuipers et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2018Cited by: 2References: 2

  • The foundations of the environmental rebound effect and its contribution towards a general framework

    Open AccessD F Vivanco, Will McDowall et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2016

  • Using LCA‐based Decomposition Analysis to Study the Multidimensional Contribution of Technological Innovation to Environmental Pressures

    Open AccessD F Vivanco, Ray Kemp et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2014

    This article presents a general framework for macroenvironmental assessment, combining life cycle assessment (LCA) with the IPAT equation, and explores its combination with decomposition analysis to assess the multidimensional contribution of technological innovation to environmental pressures. This approach is illustrated with a case study in which carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and nitrogen oxides (NO x ) air emissions from diesel passenger cars in Eur…

  • The future of food — Scenarios and the effect on natural resource use in agriculture in 2050

    Open AccessIngrid Odegard, I Y R Odegard et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2013Cited by: 11References: 3

  • Metabolic Side Effects of Transitions

    Open AccessEster van der VoetARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2011

  • Freely Disposable Time

    Open AccessMarieke Hobbes, Wouter T De Groot et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2011Cited by: 3References: 6

    This paper develops, tests, and discusses a metric for livelihood assessment that integrates cash flow and time use households. It expresses how much time the household adults have left after satisfying the household’s basic needs (e.g., for food, sleep, care, consumables, and leisure). This “freely disposable time” (FDT) may be put to any use available and allowed in the local context, such as above-basic leisure, work to acquire above-basic con…

  • Dynamic Material Flow Analysis for Strategic Construction and Demolition Waste Management in Beijing

    Open AccessMingming Hu, Ester van der Voet et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2010

    Of all materials extracted from the earth's crust, the construction sector uses 50%, producing huge amounts of construction and demolition waste (CDW). In Beijing, presently 35 million metric tons per year (megatonnes/year [Mt/yr]) of CDW are generated. This amount is expected to grow significantly when the first round of mass buildings erected in the 1990s starts to be demolished. In this study, a dynamic material flow analysis (MFA) is conducte…

  • Implementing the Results of Material Flow Analysis

    Open AccessClaudia R Binder, Ester van der Voet et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2009

  • The need for combining IEA and IE tools

    Open AccessRené Kleijn, Ester van der Voet et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2008

  • Books

    Open AccessEster van der VoetARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2007

  • Books

    Open AccessReinout Heijungs, Ester van der VoetARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2006

  • Dematerialization

    Open AccessEster van der Voet, Lauran Van Oers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2004

    This article contains the results of a study performed to support the Dutch environmental policy of dematerialization. The aim of the study was to develop and apply a methodology to identify the materials that contribute most to the environmental problems in the Netherlands. The developed methodology combines aspects of material flow accounting (MFA) and life‐cycle assessment (LCA) and aims at adding a set of environmental weights to the flows of…

  • Side effects of categorized environmental measures and their implications for impact analysis

    Open AccessEllen Raadschelders, Jean‐Paul Hettelingh et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2003Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Predicting future emissions based on characteristics of stocks

    Open AccessEster van der Voet, René Kleijn et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2002

  • Full Mode and Attribution Mode in Environmental Analysis

    Open AccessHelias Udo de Haes, Reinout Heijungs et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2000

    Several tools exist for the analysis of the environmental impacts of chains or networks of processes. These relatively simple tools include materials flow accounting (MFA), substance flow analysis (SFA), life‐cycle assessment (LCA), energy analysis, and environmentally extended input‐output analysis (IOA), all based on fixed input‐output relations. They are characterized by the nature of their flow objects, such as products, materials, energy, su…

  • Material flows and economic models

    Open AccessMathijs Bouman, Reinout Heijungs et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2000

  • Dynamic substance flow analysis

    Open AccessRené Kleijn, Ruben Huele et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2000