Nina Eisenmenger

Biographic Data

ID6547450
NAMENina Eisenmenger
GIVEN NAMESNina
FAMILY NAMEEisenmenger
SIGNATUREEISENMENGER N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Klagenfurt
ORCID0000-0002-8833-3883
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS58
WORKS AS AUTHOR34
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Assessing mining‐related land footprints of global steel use with a global physical input–output model

    Open AccessHanspeter Wieland, Dominik Wiedenhofer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2025

    The production of iron and steel poses numerous sustainability challenges, including the often‐overlooked environmental impact of iron ore mining through its land use. Although the global area affected is small, iron ore mining involves intensive land exploitation, with sites typically located far from steel users, creating a disconnect between impacts and beneficiaries. This study overcomes this disconnect by applying a consumption‐based footpri…

  • How decarbonization and the circular economy interact

    Open AccessWilli Haas, André Baumgart et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2025

    The widely heralded decarbonization of economies is a significant intervention in countries' societal metabolism, which eliminates the use of fossil fuels but also requires renewing societal stocks such as buildings, vehicles, and power plants, which in turn requires materials and energy. The circular economy (CE) shifts a country's metabolism toward less material demand, waste, and emissions, moving away from a linear resource flow pattern to on…

  • Global material flows and resource productivity

    Open AccessHeinz Schandl, Raymundo Marcos-Martinez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2024

    Accurate assessments of global primary material extraction, trade of primary materials and products, material use, waste, and emissions support the development of policies that facilitate the decoupling of economic activity, natural resource use, and related environmental impacts. Here, we quantify all crucial aspects of global and country‐by‐country material requirements needed to fuel economic activities, covering both territorial‐ and demand‐b…

  • Do material efficiency improvements backfire

    Open AccessBarbara Plank, Nina Eisenmenger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2021

    To keep global heating and other negative consequences of socioeconomic activities within manageable boundaries, industrialized countries must undergo substantial decarbonization, requiring the exploitation of synergies with other environmental endeavors. Improving resource efficiency—that is, reducing the resources required to generate a unit of economic output—is a prominent goal pursued across levels of scale. How does resource efficiency rela…

  • Supply versus use designs of environmental extensions in input–output analysis

    Open AccessHanspeter Wieland, Stefan Giljum et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2020

    Input–output analysis is one of the central methodological pillars of industrial ecology. However, the literature that discusses different structures of environmental extensions (EEs), that is, the scope of physical flows and their attribution to sectors in the monetary input–output table (MIOT), remains fragmented. This article investigates the conceptual and empirical implications of applying two different but frequently used designs of EEs, us…

  • The Sustainable Development Goals prioritize economic growth over sustainable resource use

    Open AccessNina Eisenmenger, Melanie Pichler et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2020Cited by: 24References: 17

    The sustainable development goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015, succeeding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While the MDGs focused on improving well-being in the developing world, the 17 SDGs address all countries and aim at reconciling economic and social with ecological goals. We adopt a social ecology perspective and critically reflect on the SDGs’ potential for monitoring, supporting, and bringing about a transformation towards sustain…

  • Increasing impacts of land use on biodiversity and carbon sequestration driven by population and economic growth

    Open AccessAlexandra Marques, Inês S Martins et al.ARTICLENature Ecology & Evolution2019

  • The impacts of data deviations between MRIO models on material footprints

    Open AccessStefan Giljum, Hanspeter Wieland et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2019

    In various international policy processes such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals, an urgent demand for robust consumption‐based indicators of material flows, or material footprints (MFs), has emerged over the past years. Yet, MFs for national economies diverge when calculated with different Global Multiregional Input–Output (GMRIO) databases, constituting a significant barrier to a broad policy uptake of these indicators. The objective of t…

  • Exiobase 3

    Open AccessKonstantin Stadler, Richard Wood et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2018

    Environmentally extended multiregional input‐output (EE MRIO) tables have emerged as a key framework to provide a comprehensive description of the global economy and analyze its effects on the environment. Of the available EE MRIO databases, EXIOBASE stands out as a database compatible with the System of Environmental‐Economic Accounting (SEEA) with a high sectorial detail matched with multiple social and environmental satellite accounts. In this…

  • Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity

    Open AccessHeinz Schandl, Marina Fischer-Kowalski et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2018

    The international industrial ecology (IE) research community and United Nations (UN) Environment have, for the first time, agreed on an authoritative and comprehensive data set for global material extraction and trade covering 40 years of global economic activity and natural resource use. This new data set is becoming the standard information source for decision making at the UN in the context of the post‐2015 development agenda, which acknowledg…

  • Trends in Austrian Resource Efficiency

    Open AccessNina Eisenmenger, Benjamin Warr et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2017

    In the past few years, resource use and resource efficiency have been implemented in the European Union (EU) environmental policy programs as well as international sustainable development programs. In their programs, the EU focuses on four resource types that should be addressed: materials, energy (or carbon dioxide [CO 2 ] emissions), water, and land. In this article, we first discuss different perspectives on energy use and present the results …

  • Material Stocks and Sustainable Development

    Open AccessDominik Wiedenhofer, Willi Haas et al.CHAPTERSocial Ecology2016

  • Transitions in Sociometabolic Regimes Throughout Human History

    Open AccessFridolin Krausmann, Helga Weisz et al.CHAPTERSocial Ecology2016

  • Long-Term Trends in Global Material and Energy Use

    Open AccessFridolin Krausmann, A Schaffartzik et al.CHAPTERSocial Ecology2016

  • More Than the Sum of Its Parts

    Open AccessAndreas Mayer, A Schaffartzik et al.CHAPTERSocial Ecology2016

  • Boundary Issues

    Open AccessA Schaffartzik, Nina Eisenmenger et al.CHAPTERSocial Ecology2016

  • Consumption-based material flow indicators — Comparing six ways of calculating the Austrian raw material consumption providing six results

    Open AccessNina Eisenmenger, Dominik Wiedenhofer et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2016

  • Global patterns of metal extractivism, 1950–2010

    Open AccessA Schaffartzik, Andreas Mayer et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2016Cited by: 11References: 7

  • What Drives Austrian Raw Material Consumption

    Open AccessManuel Wenzlik, Nina Eisenmenger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2015

    The growth in Austria's raw material consumption (RMC) or material footprint is driven by changes in consumption and production. In using the tool of structural decomposition analysis and applying it to Austrian RMC between 1995 and 2007, three specific drivers (technology, composition, and volume of final demand) are identified and quantified. The overall growth of Austrian RMC across the period of time under investigation shows that neither imp…

  • Maintenance and Expansion

    Open AccessDominik Wiedenhofer, J Steinberger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2015

    Material stocks are an important part of the social metabolism. Owing to long service lifetimes of stocks, they not only shape resource flows during construction, but also during use, maintenance, and at the end of their useful lifetime. This makes them an important topic for sustainable development. In this work, a model of stocks and flows for nonmetallic minerals in residential buildings, roads, and railways in the EU25, from 2004 to 2009 is p…

  • Trading Land

    Open AccessA Schaffartzik, H Haberl et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2015

    Land use is recognized as a pervasive driver of environmental impacts, including climate change and biodiversity loss. Global trade leads to “telecoupling” between the land use of production and the consumption of biomass‐based goods and services. Telecoupling is captured by accounts of the upstream land requirements associated with traded products, also commonly referred to as land footprints. These accounts face challenges in two main areas: (1…

  • Resource Use in Small Island States

    Open AccessFridolin Krausmann, Regina Richter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2014

    Iceland and Trinidad and Tobago are small open, high‐income island economies with very specific resource‐use patterns. This article presents a material flow analysis (MFA) for the two countries covering a time period of nearly five decades. Both countries have a narrow domestic resource base, their economy being largely based on the exploitation of one or two key resources for export production. In the case of Trinidad and Tobago, the physical ec…

  • Consumption‐based Material Flow Accounting

    Open AccessA Schaffartzik, Nina Eisenmenger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2014

    In 2007, imports accounted for approximately 34% of the material input (domestic extraction and imports) into the Austrian economy and almost 60% of the GDP stemmed from exports. Upstream material inputs into the production of traded goods, however, are not yet included in the standard framework of material flow accounting (MFA). We have reviewed different approaches accounting for these upstream material inputs, or raw material equivalents (RME)…

  • Cropland area embodied in international trade

    Open AccessThomas Kastner, A Schaffartzik et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2014

  • The global metabolic transition

    Open AccessA Schaffartzik, Andreas Mayer et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2014Cited by: 23References: 10

    Since the World War II, many economies have transitioned from an agrarian, biomass-based to an industrial, minerals-based metabolic regime. Since 1950, world population grew by factor 2.7 and global material consumption by factor 3.7-71 Gigatonnes per year in 2010. The expansion of the resource base required by human societies is associated with growing pressure on the environment and infringement on the habitats of other species. In order to ach…