Search Results - "Steinberger, Julia K"
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Scientists’ warning on affluence
Published in Nature communications (19-06-2020)“…For over half a century, worldwide growth in affluence has continuously increased resource use and pollutant emissions far more rapidly than these have been…”
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The food waste hierarchy as a framework for the management of food surplus and food waste
Published in Journal of cleaner production (01-08-2014)“…The unprecedented scale of food waste in global food supply chains is attracting increasing attention due to its environmental, social and economic impacts…”
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Large inequality in international and intranational energy footprints between income groups and across consumption categories
Published in Nature energy (01-03-2020)“…Inequality in energy consumption, both direct and indirect, affects the distribution of benefits that result from energy use. Detailed measures of this…”
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A Framework for Decoupling Human Need Satisfaction From Energy Use
Published in Ecological economics (01-11-2017)“…Climate change poses great challenges to modern societies, central amongst which is to decouple human need satisfaction from energy use. Energy systems are the…”
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A good life for all within planetary boundaries
Published in Nature sustainability (01-02-2018)“…Humanity faces the challenge of how to achieve a high quality of life for over 7 billion people without destabilizing critical planetary processes. Using…”
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Human well‐being and climate change mitigation
Published in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Climate change (01-11-2017)“…Climate change mitigation research is fundamentally motivated by the preservation of human lives and the environmental conditions which enable them. However,…”
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Maintenance and Expansion: Modeling Material Stocks and Flows for Residential Buildings and Transportation Networks in the EU25
Published in Journal of industrial ecology (01-08-2015)“…Summary Material stocks are an important part of the social metabolism. Owing to long service lifetimes of stocks, they not only shape resource flows during…”
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Your money or your life? The carbon-development paradox
Published in Environmental research letters (01-04-2020)“…The relationship between human health and well-being, energy use and carbon emissions is a foremost concern in sustainable development. If past advances in…”
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Development and dematerialization: an international study
Published in PloS one (21-10-2013)“…Economic development and growth depend on growing levels of resource use, and result in environmental impacts from large scale resource extraction and…”
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From constraint to sufficiency: The decoupling of energy and carbon from human needs, 1975–2005
Published in Ecological economics (01-12-2010)“…We investigate the relationship between human needs, energy consumption and carbon emissions for several indicators of human development: life expectancy,…”
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Discourses of climate delay
Published in Global sustainability (2020)“…Non-technical summary ‘Discourses of climate delay’ pervade current debates on climate action. These discourses accept the existence of climate change, but…”
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Global patterns of materials use: A socioeconomic and geophysical analysis
Published in Ecological economics (01-03-2010)“…Human use of materials is a major driver of global environmental change. The links between materials use and economic development are central to the challenge…”
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Household final energy footprints in Nepal, Vietnam and Zambia: composition, inequality and links to well-being
Published in Environmental research letters (01-02-2021)“…The link between energy use, social and environmental well-being is at the root of critical synergies between clean and affordable energy (SDG7) and other…”
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Understanding (and tackling) need satisfier escalation
Published in Sustainability : science, practice, & policy (10-12-2020)“…Contemporary consumption patterns, embedded in profit-maximizing economic systems, are driving a worsening socio-ecological crisis, in particular through the…”
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Pathways of human development and carbon emissions embodied in trade
Published in Nature climate change (01-02-2012)“…Quality of life improves with economic growth and hence requires increasing greenhouse-gas emissions. Little is known, however, about the role of international…”
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Assessing the dynamic material criticality of infrastructure transitions: A case of low carbon electricity
Published in Applied energy (01-06-2014)“…•We present a method to analyse material criticality of infrastructure transitions.•Criticality is defined as the potential for, and exposure to, supply…”
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International inequality of environmental pressures: Decomposition and comparative analysis
Published in Ecological indicators (01-03-2016)“…•We analyse global inequality and drivers of Territorial and Footprint indicators.•International trade worsens environmental equity in terms of energy and…”
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Energy Rebound as a Potential Threat to a Low-Carbon Future: Findings from a New Exergy-Based National-Level Rebound Approach
Published in Energies (Basel) (01-01-2017)“…150 years ago, Stanley Jevons introduced the concept of energy rebound: that anticipated energy efficiency savings may be “taken back” by behavioural…”
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The political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach
Published in Energy research & social science (01-08-2020)“…Research on car dependence exposes the difficulty of moving away from a car-dominated, high-carbon transport system, but neglects the political-economic…”
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Four agendas for research and policy on emissions mitigation and well-being
Published in Global sustainability (2020)“…Non-technical abstract The climate crisis requires nations to achieve human well-being with low national levels of carbon emissions. Countries vary from one…”
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