Heinz Schandl
Biographic Data
| ID | 77089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heinz Schandl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heinz |
| FAMILY NAME | Schandl |
| SIGNATURE | SCHANDL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6399-4231 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Consumer psychology in the circular economy: Network evidence from sustainable clothing disposal in China
Nested subnational material flow accounting for circular economy assessment
Subnational entities such as states and provinces differ markedly in their material use, waste generation, and emissions due to variations in resource endowments, industrial structures, and living standards. These differences create distinct sustainability challenges that require regionally tailored policy responses. Yet, the development of comprehensive subnational datasets and indicators, including circular-economy metrics, has been constrained…
Christopher Kennedy's 'Malthus Enigma: Technology, science and policy for a fragile Earth
Building a Sociology of society–nature relations: From Habermas and Luhmann to sustainability
Resource use and resource efficiency in the Asia–Pacific region revisited
The evolution of research at the intersection of industrial ecology and artificial intelligence
The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and industrial ecology (IE) is gaining significant attention due to AI's potential to enhance the sustainability of production and consumption systems. Understanding the current state of research in this field can highlight covered topics, identify trends, and reveal understudied topics warranting future research. However, few studies have systematically reviewed this intersection. In this study, w…
Measuring progress toward a circular economy of the Asean Community
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which necessitates accelerated progress in sustainable production and consumption. This study employs an economy‐wide material flow analysis to assess the ASEAN community's material use, waste generation, emissions, resource efficiency, and circularity rate. The analysis encompasses the entire ASEAN economy, with a detailed focu…
Doubling of the global freshwater footprint of material production over two decades
Australia's circular economy metrics and indicators
This article presents a comprehensive economy‐wide material flow analysis of the Australian economy in 2019, examining the domestic extraction, trade, end‐of‐life flows, and recycling for all materials. The results highlight Australia's role as a natural resource supplier, with metals and fossil fuels being primary contributors. Through material flow analysis, we found that in 2019 Australia extracted 2587 Mt of natural resources, exported a subs…
City‐scale assessment of the material and environmental footprint of buildings using an advanced building information model: A case study from Canberra, Australia
As cities grow, demand for urban materials is set to rise. Meeting sustainability targets will require transformative changes to how cities are constructed. Yet, accurate information on embodied building materials and their environmental impacts at the city scale is still lacking. We use Light Detection and Ranging data, building archetype information, and statistical models to estimate the embodied materials in buildings in Canberra, Australia, …
Global material flows and resource productivity: The 2024 update
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…
Targeting 1.5 degrees with the global carbon footprint of the Australian Capital Territory
In 2019 the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government stated an ambition to prioritise reduction of Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, the size of which had not been fully quantified previously. This study calculated the total carbon footprint of the ACT in 2018, including Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and modelled scenarios to reduce all emissions in line with a 1.5 °C target approach. This is the first time a multi-scale analysis of local, sub-…
Copper ore material footprints and transfers embodied in domestic and international trade of provinces in China
Copper is a critical material for development and plays a profound role in transitioning to a low‐carbon future. China is the main copper consumer in recent decades that has a fast‐growing domestic market accompanied by active international trade. Given the large regional differences within China, it is relevant to understand the domestic driving forces of copper demands and the cascading effects on international regions. Here we combine the newl…
Do sectoral material efficiency improvements add up to greenhouse gas emissions reduction on an economy‐wide level
This article aims to provide a better understanding of the contribution of material efficiency (ME) improvements to climate mitigation from an economy‐wide perspective. We employ the Global Trade and Environment Model to investigate and quantify the part played by ME gains at different stages of the supply chain and in different sectors of the economy to an economy‐wide reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Our study focuses on three mater…
Implementing the material footprint to measure progress towards Sustainable Development Goals 8 and 12
Proposal for a new compilation system for metal ores in economy wide material flow accounting
The authors of this article propose a major revision of the processes used for assembling the metal ores component of economy wide material flow accounts (EW‐MFA). The case for doing this is built by describing in detail important shortcomings of current metal ores reporting systems, introducing the key features of the revised system being proposed, and then illustrating the way in which the new system both solves old shortcomings and adds import…
The impacts of data deviations between MRIO models on material footprints: A comparison of Exiobase, Eora, and Icio
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…
Regional material flow accounts for China: Examining China's natural resource use at the provincial and national level
Over the last three decades, China has experienced the most dynamic economic development lifting living standards and resulting in fast‐growing use of natural resources. In the past, the focus has been on national MFA accounts which do not do justice to the second largest economy, home to 19% of the world population and having 30% of global material use. In this research, we calculate material extraction for China at the regional level during 199…
A Comprehensive Material Flow Account for Lao PDR to Inform Environmental and Sustainability Policy
Modern environmental and sustainability policy that acknowledges the linkages between socioeconomic processes and environmental pressures and impacts, and designs policies to decouple economic activity from environmental pressures and impacts, requires a sophisticated and comprehensive knowledge base. The concept of industrial metabolism provides a sound conceptual base, and material flow accounting—including primary material inputs and outflows …
Explanatory Variables for National Socio‐Metabolic Profiles and the Question of Forecasting National Material Flows in a Globalized Economy
Identifying which socioeconomic factors can explain differences in national sociometabolic profiles, and quantifying how well they do it, is relevant to the question of whether national‐level material flows can be forecast accurately enough to inform policy. In this study, we employed panel analyses to test a wide range of socioeconomic variables with respect to their ability to explain variations in the material flows trajectories between differ…
Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity: Forty Years of Evidence
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…
Dirty Laundry in Manila: Comparing Resource Consumption Practices for Individual and Shared Laundering
Changing lifestyles in developing and emerging economies entail a shift in technology use, everyday practices, and resource consumption. It is important to understand the sustainability consequences of these changes and the potential for policy to guide practices toward more sustainable lifestyles. In this study, we investigate laundry practices in the City of Manila, the Philippines, and compare the resources consumed in three different modes of…
The Socio-Economic Metabolism of an Emerging Economy: Monitoring Progress of Decoupling of Economic Growth and Environmental Pressures in the Philippines
Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation
Rapid urbanisation generates risks and opportunities for sustainable development. Urban policy and decision makers are challenged by the complexity of cities as social-ecological-technical systems. Consequently there is an increasing need for collaborative knowledge development that supports a whole-of-system view, and transformational change at multiple scales. Such holistic urban approaches are rare in practice. A co-design process involving re…
Global socioeconomic material stocks rise 23-fold over the 20th century and require half of annual resource use
Significance A large part of all primary materials extracted globally accumulates in stocks of manufactured capital, including in buildings, infrastructure, machinery, and equipment. These in-use stocks of materials provide important services for society and the economy and drive long-term demand for materials and energy. Configuration and quantity of stocks determine future waste flows and recycling potential and are key to closing material loop…
Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation
Rapid urbanisation generates risks and opportunities for sustainable development. Urban policy and decision makers are challenged by the complexity of cities as social-ecological-technical systems. Consequently there is an increasing need for collaborative knowledge development that supports a whole-of-system view, and transformational change at multiple scales. Such holistic urban approaches are rare in practice. A co-design process involving re…
Implementing the material footprint to measure progress towards Sustainable Development Goals 8 and 12
Material use and material efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean
The metabolic transition of a planned economy: Material flows in the USSR and the Russian Federation 1900 to 2010
Patterns of change in material use and material efficiency in the successor states of the former Soviet Union
Socioeconomic Metabolism and Colonization of Natural Processes in SangSaeng Village: Material and Energy Flows, Land Use, and Cultural Change in Northeast Thailand
A conceptual model of the socioeconomic impacts of unconventional fossil fuel extraction
Resource use and resource efficiency in the Asia–Pacific region
Social Metabolism and Labour in a Local Context: Changing Environmental Relations on Trinket Island
Targeting 1.5 degrees with the global carbon footprint of the Australian Capital Territory
In 2019 the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government stated an ambition to prioritise reduction of Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, the size of which had not been fully quantified previously. This study calculated the total carbon footprint of the ACT in 2018, including Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and modelled scenarios to reduce all emissions in line with a 1.5 °C target approach. This is the first time a multi-scale analysis of local, sub-…
Cities as social-ecological systems: Linking metabolism, wellbeing and human health
Delinking of economic growth and materials turnover
National material flow analyses and materials balances are indispensable sources of information with respect to the operationalizalion of sustainable development. Both of these instruments are already employed in official statistics in Germany and Japan, and other countries—especially member slates of the European Union—are likely to follow suit. Because of the preparatory stages of work that have already been carried out, Austria is in an excell…
Delinking of economic growth and materials turnover
National material flow analyses and materials balances are indispensable sources of information with respect to the operationalizalion of sustainable development. Both of these instruments are already employed in official statistics in Germany and Japan, and other countries—especially member slates of the European Union—are likely to follow suit. Because of the preparatory stages of work that have already been carried out, Austria is in an excell…
Social Metabolism and Labour in a Local Context: Changing Environmental Relations on Trinket Island
Changes in the United Kingdom's natural relations in terms of society's metabolism and land-use from 1850 to the present day
Special Section: European Environmental History and Ecological Economics
Socioeconomic Metabolism and Colonization of Natural Processes in SangSaeng Village: Material and Energy Flows, Land Use, and Cultural Change in Northeast Thailand
Das Ende der Fläche: Zum gesellschaftlichen Stoffwechsel der Industrialisierung
Der soziale Metabolismus der Industrialisierung: Die Überwindung der energetischen Schranken des agrarischen Wirtschaftens Der soziale Metabolismus der Industrialisierung: Die Überwindung der energeti…
This article provides a socio-ecological and empirically founded perspective of the industrialisation period, focussing on the biophysical characteristics of the development process. The paper explores the physical limitations of growth in an agrarian socio-ecological regime, where the availability of energy was based on biomass and land, and the mechanisms and strategies that enabled the society to surmount these limits over two centuries of ind…
The Great Transformation: A Socio-metabolic Reading of the Industrialization of the United Kingdom
Regional Patterns in Global Resource Extraction
The Global Sociometabolic Transition: Past and Present Metabolic Profiles and Their Future Trajectories
We present the concept of sociometabolic regimes and use it to analyze patterns of change in global social metabolism. Sociometabolic regimes represent dynamic equilibria of society–nature interactions and are characterized by typical patterns of material and energy flows (metabolic profiles). From this perspective, industrialization appears as a process of transition from the agrarian to the industrial regime. This article presents a global data…
Australia's Resource Use Trajectories
Australia's export‐oriented large natural resources sectors of agriculture and mining, the ways large‐scale services, such as nutrition, water, housing, transport and mobility, and energy are organized, and the consumption patterns of Australia's wealthy urban households, create a unique pattern of overall resource use in Australia. In an attempt to contribute to a new environmental information system compatible with economic accounts, we represe…
Materials Use Across World Regions: Inevitable Pasts and Possible Futures
The biophysical perspective of a middle income economy: Material flows in Mexico
Socio-ecological regime transitions in Austria and the United Kingdom
Long term trends in resource exergy consumption and useful work supplies in the UK, 1900 to 2000
The Dematerialization Potential of the Australian Economy
In this article we test the long‐term dematerialization potential for Australia in terms of materials, energy, and water use as well as CO 2 emissions by introducing concrete targets for major sectors. Major improvements in the construction and housing, transport and mobility, and food and nutrition sectors in the Australian economy, if coupled with significant reductions in the resource export sectors, would substantially improve the current mat…
Sustainable Resource Use in the Asia‐Pacific Region: A Major Policy Challenge
Energy use and economic development: A comparative analysis of useful work supply in Austria, Japan, the United Kingdom and the US during 100years of economic growth
Resource use and resource efficiency in the Asia–Pacific region
Material Flows and Material Productivity in China, Australia, and Japan
This article presents material flows and material productivity data and indicators for Australia, China, and Japan for the period 1970 to 2005. The main data used come from a new material flows database for the Asia‐Pacific region that was assembled using up‐to‐date standardized methodologies of material flow accounting and significantly extends the knowledge base available for studies on resource use dynamics in the region. We show that the thre…
Biosensitive’ cities — a conceptual framework for integrative understanding of the health of people and planetary ecosystems
Cities as social-ecological systems: Linking metabolism, wellbeing and human health
Material use and material efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Effects of Climate and Socio-Demographics on Direct Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Australia
Household CO2 emissions are a significant contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and consequently climate warming. Despite this, there has been little consideration of how household CO2 emissions may be affected by changes in climate. The aim of the present study has been to investigate the way climate, as well as socio-demographic characteristics, may affect household CO2 emissions produced from energy use. A national online survey was c…
Accounting for the Material Stock of Nations
National material stock (MS) accounts have been a neglected field of analysis in industrial ecology, possibly because of the difficulty in establishing such accounts. In this research, we propose a novel method to model national MS based on historical material flow data. This enables us to avoid the laborious data work involved with bottom‐up accounts for stocks and to arrive at plausible levels of stock accumulation for nations. We apply the met…
Economics (47 works) · Environmental Impact and Sustainability (40 works) · Sustainability (33 works) · Business (31 works) · Ecology (28 works) · Natural resource economics (28 works) · Engineering (24 works) · Geography (24 works) · Industrial ecology (20 works) · Extraction and Separation Processes (16 works)