Lauran Van Oers

Biographic Data

ID8952454
NAMELauran Van Oers
GIVEN NAMESLauran
FAMILY NAMEVan Oers
SIGNATUREVAN OERS L
AFFILIATIONSInstitute of Environmental Sciences (CML) Leiden University Leiden the Netherlands
ORCID0000-0002-7383-604X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • 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…

  • Identification of dissipative emissions for improved assessment of metal resources in life cycle assessment

    Open AccessMikołaj Owsianiak, Lauran Van Oers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2022

    Environmental dissipation is a novel approach to account for impacts from mineral resources. In contrast to all other resource‐related life cycle impact assessment methods, which use data on extractions as input to calculation of indicator scores, environmental dissipation is characterized solely through emissions to the environment. Making environmental dissipation work as a viable resource use impact category in life cycle assessment requires, …

  • Environmental impacts of key metals' supply and low‐carbon technologies are likely to decrease in the future

    Open AccessCarina Harpprecht, Lauran Van Oers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2021

    The environmental benefits of low-carbon technologies, such as photovoltaic modules, have been under debate because their large-scale deployment will require a drastic increase in metal production. This is of concern because higher metal demand may induce ore grade decline and can thereby further intensify the environmental footprint of metal supply. To account for this interlinkage known as the “energy-resource nexus”, energy and metal supply sc…

  • 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 …

  • Eco-efficient environmental policy in oil and gas production in The Netherlands

    Open AccessGjalt Huppes, Marc D Davidson et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2007

  • Environmental Impacts of Consumption in the European Union

    Open AccessGjalt Huppes, Arjan de Koning et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2006

    For developing product policy, insight into the environmental effects of products is required. But available life‐cycle assessment studies (LCAs) are hardly comparable between different products and do not cover total consumption. Input‐output analysis with environmental extensions (EEIOA) of full consumption is not available for the European Union. Available country studies have a low sector resolution and a limited number of environmental exten…

  • 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…

  • Combining SFA and LCA

    Open AccessArnold Tukker, René Kleijn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology1997

    This article describes a method that combines substance flow analysis (SFA) and life‐cycle assessment (LCA). It was used to provide a focus in the heated Swedish polyvinylchloride (PVC) debate. For Sweden's PVC chain, all emissions related to PVC were inventoried and translated into LCA‐theme scores. The theme scores were compared with total theme scores for all Swedish processes and were benchmarked on the basis of PVC's contribution to Sweden's…