Peter Berrill
Biographic Data
| ID | 6821796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Berrill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Berrill |
| SIGNATURE | BERRILL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1614-3885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Quantifying the CO2 mitigation potential from sustainable urban planning in European cities
Substantial research demonstrates links between urban form and energy demand, activity levels, or environmental impacts from buildings and transport. The potential for an ‘urban mitigation wedge’ to reduce greenhouse gases emissions from these sectors through sustainable urban planning is often suggested but rarely quantified using spatially explicit activity. Here we gather data of urban form and residential and mobility activity and emissions f…
Socio-ecological inequalities in housing consumption: How income, urban form, and tenure drive carbon footprints
The provision of decent housing is both a global social priority and a productive activity with long-term environmental implications. Investigating the unequal distribution of housing resources and their associated greenhouse gas emissions, from heating to materials, construction, and use, allows us to foreground housing as a key site of socio-ecological inequalities in today's economies. This paper develops a model for assessing such inequalitie…
Measuring the impact of urban morphology on residential energy consumption at the neighborhood-level in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, the residential sector accounts for 16.8% of national energy use, mostly from natural gas. Current policies and standards aimed at reducing residential energy consumption mainly focus on improving the performance of buildings and appliances. The critical role of urban morphology in moderating microclimate by cooling surrounding areas and shielding buildings from solar radiation has been demonstrated, particularly in hot-summer…
Towards an integrated understanding of circularity, urban design, planetary stability and well-being
Circularity strategies are increasingly recognized as essential for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improving material efficiency in urban environments. However, existing approaches often analyze sectors in isolation, limiting their ability to capture systemic interactions and spatial dependencies. In this study, we introduce the Integrated Urban Circularity (INTURC) framework that integrates construction, building energy use, transpo…
Bud-Mi: A template that optimizes material intensity data collection and utilization
Mapping construction material stocks is essential for understanding socioeconomic metabolism and informing the circular economy. However, spatial material stock studies often produce coarse results owing to challenges in material intensity development. This paper introduces BUD-MI (Bottom-Up Data: Material Intensity), a material intensity data collection template designed with three core objectives: streamlining the data collection process during…
Mapping material stocks in Pakistan’s built environment: Rethinking the definition of house across socio-economic contexts
Building material stocks (MS) account for over half of global raw material demand, significantly contributing to carbon emissions and land-use change. Yet, most research on material use in built environments focuses on Global North, overlooking rapidly urbanizing Global South. In this study, we present first spatially resolved estimates of building MS for three distinct socio-economic contexts in Pakistan. We develop a bottom-up framework that in…
Material circularity strategies in the stock-flow-service nexus of buildings, transport, electricity, machinery, furniture, and appliances
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…
Assessing the social acceptability of sufficiency measures in the residential sector
Efficiency measures are insufficient for achieving greenhouse gas neutrality in the residential sector. Additional efforts are needed, with the concept of sufficiency gaining increasing attention. Sufficiency targets demand side and behavioural change, while delivering wellbeing. Reducing living space per capita is a sufficiency measure often suggested for residential buildings. However, research dealing with social perceptions and attitudes towa…
Estimating passenger emissions from airfares supports equitable climate action
Air travel generates a substantial and growing share of global greenhouse gas emissions. Reduction efforts partly rely on estimates of emissions per passenger, which may be used for carbon budgets, offsets, or taxes. Aircraft emissions are typically allocated to individual passengers through space-based allocation dependent on seating arrangements by travel class. However, the operation of aircraft depends on profitability, which benefits from hi…
Linking service provision to material cycles: A new framework for studying the resource efficiency–climate change (Recc) nexus
Material production accounts for 23% of all greenhouse gas emissions. More efficient use of materials—through decoupling of services that support human well‐being from material use—is imperative as other emission mitigation options are expensive. An interdisciplinary scientific assessment of material efficiency and its links to service provision, material cycle management, and climate policy is needed to identify effective strategies and help des…
A comprehensive set of global scenarios of housing, mobility, and material efficiency for material cycles and energy systems modeling
Scenario-based assessments are a useful tool to explore unknown futures and inform decision makers and the public of the consequences of different courses of action. Scenario developments in industrial ecology have focused on disparate components of the socioeconomic metabolism and case studies, and few efforts of comprehensive and cumulative scenario formulation are documented. Many important, empirically derived relationships between material c…
Drivers of change in US residential energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, 1990–2015
Annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from residential energy use in the United States peaked in 2005 at 1.26 Gt CO 2-eq yr −1 , and have since decreased at an average annual rate of 2% yr −1 to 0.96 Gt CO 2-eq yr −1 in 2019. In this article we decompose changes in US residential energy supply and GHG emissions over the period 1990–2015 into relevant drivers for four end-use categories. The chosen drivers encompass changing demographics, housing …
Material flows and GHG emissions from housing stock evolution in US counties, 2020–60
The evolution of housing stocks determines demand for construction materials and energy, and associated emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHGs). The contribution of construction to building life-cycle emissions is growing as buildings become more energy efficient and the energy supply decarbonizes. A housing stock model is developed for counties in the United States using dynamic vacancy rates which endogenously influence stock out- and inflows. St…
Capital in the American carbon, energy, and material footprint
Method for endogenizing capital in the United States Environmentally‐Extended Input‐Output model
Each year businesses, governments, and homeowners in the United States invest around one fifth of gross domestic product into the creation of capital assets such as buildings, machinery, and software to enable production and consumption. Use of capital is typically included to some extent in environmental life cycle assessments of goods and services but is not incorporated into most environmentally extended input‐output (EEIO) models, including t…
Environmental impacts of high penetration renewable energy scenarios for Europe
The prospect of irreversible environmental alterations and an increasingly volatile climate pressurises societies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, thereby mitigating climate change impacts. As global electricity demand continues to grow, particularly if considering a future with increased electrification of heat and transport sectors, the imperative to decarbonise our electricity supply becomes more urgent. This letter implements outputs of a …
Material flows and GHG emissions from housing stock evolution in US counties, 2020–60
The evolution of housing stocks determines demand for construction materials and energy, and associated emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHGs). The contribution of construction to building life-cycle emissions is growing as buildings become more energy efficient and the energy supply decarbonizes. A housing stock model is developed for counties in the United States using dynamic vacancy rates which endogenously influence stock out- and inflows. St…
Environmental impacts of high penetration renewable energy scenarios for Europe
The prospect of irreversible environmental alterations and an increasingly volatile climate pressurises societies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, thereby mitigating climate change impacts. As global electricity demand continues to grow, particularly if considering a future with increased electrification of heat and transport sectors, the imperative to decarbonise our electricity supply becomes more urgent. This letter implements outputs of a …
Method for endogenizing capital in the United States Environmentally‐Extended Input‐Output model
Each year businesses, governments, and homeowners in the United States invest around one fifth of gross domestic product into the creation of capital assets such as buildings, machinery, and software to enable production and consumption. Use of capital is typically included to some extent in environmental life cycle assessments of goods and services but is not incorporated into most environmentally extended input‐output (EEIO) models, including t…
Capital in the American carbon, energy, and material footprint
Linking service provision to material cycles: A new framework for studying the resource efficiency–climate change (Recc) nexus
Material production accounts for 23% of all greenhouse gas emissions. More efficient use of materials—through decoupling of services that support human well‐being from material use—is imperative as other emission mitigation options are expensive. An interdisciplinary scientific assessment of material efficiency and its links to service provision, material cycle management, and climate policy is needed to identify effective strategies and help des…
A comprehensive set of global scenarios of housing, mobility, and material efficiency for material cycles and energy systems modeling
Scenario-based assessments are a useful tool to explore unknown futures and inform decision makers and the public of the consequences of different courses of action. Scenario developments in industrial ecology have focused on disparate components of the socioeconomic metabolism and case studies, and few efforts of comprehensive and cumulative scenario formulation are documented. Many important, empirically derived relationships between material c…
Drivers of change in US residential energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, 1990–2015
Annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from residential energy use in the United States peaked in 2005 at 1.26 Gt CO 2-eq yr −1 , and have since decreased at an average annual rate of 2% yr −1 to 0.96 Gt CO 2-eq yr −1 in 2019. In this article we decompose changes in US residential energy supply and GHG emissions over the period 1990–2015 into relevant drivers for four end-use categories. The chosen drivers encompass changing demographics, housing …
Material flows and GHG emissions from housing stock evolution in US counties, 2020–60
The evolution of housing stocks determines demand for construction materials and energy, and associated emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHGs). The contribution of construction to building life-cycle emissions is growing as buildings become more energy efficient and the energy supply decarbonizes. A housing stock model is developed for counties in the United States using dynamic vacancy rates which endogenously influence stock out- and inflows. St…
Estimating passenger emissions from airfares supports equitable climate action
Air travel generates a substantial and growing share of global greenhouse gas emissions. Reduction efforts partly rely on estimates of emissions per passenger, which may be used for carbon budgets, offsets, or taxes. Aircraft emissions are typically allocated to individual passengers through space-based allocation dependent on seating arrangements by travel class. However, the operation of aircraft depends on profitability, which benefits from hi…
Quantifying the CO2 mitigation potential from sustainable urban planning in European cities
Substantial research demonstrates links between urban form and energy demand, activity levels, or environmental impacts from buildings and transport. The potential for an ‘urban mitigation wedge’ to reduce greenhouse gases emissions from these sectors through sustainable urban planning is often suggested but rarely quantified using spatially explicit activity. Here we gather data of urban form and residential and mobility activity and emissions f…
Socio-ecological inequalities in housing consumption: How income, urban form, and tenure drive carbon footprints
The provision of decent housing is both a global social priority and a productive activity with long-term environmental implications. Investigating the unequal distribution of housing resources and their associated greenhouse gas emissions, from heating to materials, construction, and use, allows us to foreground housing as a key site of socio-ecological inequalities in today's economies. This paper develops a model for assessing such inequalitie…
Measuring the impact of urban morphology on residential energy consumption at the neighborhood-level in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, the residential sector accounts for 16.8% of national energy use, mostly from natural gas. Current policies and standards aimed at reducing residential energy consumption mainly focus on improving the performance of buildings and appliances. The critical role of urban morphology in moderating microclimate by cooling surrounding areas and shielding buildings from solar radiation has been demonstrated, particularly in hot-summer…
Towards an integrated understanding of circularity, urban design, planetary stability and well-being
Circularity strategies are increasingly recognized as essential for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improving material efficiency in urban environments. However, existing approaches often analyze sectors in isolation, limiting their ability to capture systemic interactions and spatial dependencies. In this study, we introduce the Integrated Urban Circularity (INTURC) framework that integrates construction, building energy use, transpo…
Bud-Mi: A template that optimizes material intensity data collection and utilization
Mapping construction material stocks is essential for understanding socioeconomic metabolism and informing the circular economy. However, spatial material stock studies often produce coarse results owing to challenges in material intensity development. This paper introduces BUD-MI (Bottom-Up Data: Material Intensity), a material intensity data collection template designed with three core objectives: streamlining the data collection process during…
Mapping material stocks in Pakistan’s built environment: Rethinking the definition of house across socio-economic contexts
Building material stocks (MS) account for over half of global raw material demand, significantly contributing to carbon emissions and land-use change. Yet, most research on material use in built environments focuses on Global North, overlooking rapidly urbanizing Global South. In this study, we present first spatially resolved estimates of building MS for three distinct socio-economic contexts in Pakistan. We develop a bottom-up framework that in…
Material circularity strategies in the stock-flow-service nexus of buildings, transport, electricity, machinery, furniture, and appliances
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…
Assessing the social acceptability of sufficiency measures in the residential sector
Efficiency measures are insufficient for achieving greenhouse gas neutrality in the residential sector. Additional efforts are needed, with the concept of sufficiency gaining increasing attention. Sufficiency targets demand side and behavioural change, while delivering wellbeing. Reducing living space per capita is a sufficiency measure often suggested for residential buildings. However, research dealing with social perceptions and attitudes towa…
Environmental Impact and Sustainability (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Greenhouse gas (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Environmental economics (5 works) · Environmental Science (5 works) · Industrial ecology (5 works) · Natural resource economics (5 works) · Sustainability (4 works)