Search Results - "Weisz, Helga"

International comparison of health care carbon footprints by Pichler, Peter-Paul, Jaccard, Ingram S, Weisz, Ulli, Weisz, Helga

“…Climate change confronts the health care sector with a dual challenge. Accumulating climate impacts are putting an increased burden on the service provision of…”
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Physical and virtual carbon metabolism of global cities by Chen, Shaoqing, Chen, Bin, Feng, Kuishuang, Liu, Zhu, Fromer, Neil, Tan, Xianchun, Alsaedi, Ahmed, Hayat, Tasawar, Weisz, Helga, Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim, Hubacek, Klaus

“…Urban activities have profound and lasting effects on the global carbon balance. Here we develop a consistent metabolic approach that combines two…”
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Industrial Ecology: The role of manufactured capital in sustainability by Weisz, Helga, Suh, Sangwon, Graedel, T. E.

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Reducing Urban Greenhouse Gas Footprints by Pichler, Peter-Paul, Zwickel, Timm, Chavez, Abel, Kretschmer, Tino, Seddon, Jessica, Weisz, Helga

“…Cities are economically open systems that depend on goods and services imported from national and global markets to satisfy their material and energy…”
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City-level climate change mitigation in China by Shan, Yuli, Guan, Dabo, Hubacek, Klaus, Zheng, Bo, Davis, Steven J, Jia, Lichao, Liu, Jianghua, Liu, Zhu, Fromer, Neil, Mi, Zhifu, Meng, Jing, Deng, Xiangzheng, Li, Yuan, Lin, Jintai, Schroeder, Heike, Weisz, Helga, Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim

“…As national efforts to reduce CO emissions intensify, policy-makers need increasingly specific, subnational information about the sources of CO and the…”
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Carbon footprints of cities and other human settlements in the UK by Minx, Jan, Baiocchi, Giovanni, Wiedmann, Thomas, Barrett, John, Creutzig, Felix, Feng, Kuishuang, Förster, Michael, Pichler, Peter-Paul, Weisz, Helga, Hubacek, Klaus

“…A growing body of literature discusses the CO2 emissions of cities. Still, little is known about emission patterns across density gradients from remote rural…”
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The energy and carbon inequality corridor for a 1.5 °C compatible and just Europe by Jaccard, Ingram S, Pichler, Peter-Paul, Többen, Johannes, Weisz, Helga

“…Abstract The call for a decent life for all within planetary limits poses a dual challenge: provide all people with the essential resources needed to live well…”
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Physical and monetary input–output analysis: What makes the difference? by Weisz, Helga, Duchin, Faye

“…A recent paper in which embodied land appropriation of exports was calculated using a physical input–output model (Ecological Economics 44 (2003) 137–151)…”
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Leveraging digitalization for sustainability in urban transport by Creutzig, Felix, Franzen, Martina, Moeckel, Rolf, Heinrichs, Dirk, Nagel, Kai, Nieland, Simon, Weisz, Helga

“…Abstract Digitalization coevolves with and fosters three revolutions in urban transport: sharing, electrification and automatization. This dynamic poses severe…”
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Unequal carbon tax impacts on 38 million German households: assessing spatial and socio-economic hotspots by Többen, Johannes, Pichler, Peter-Paul, Jaccard, Ingram S, Kratena, Kurt, Moran, Daniel, Zheng, Heran, Weisz, Helga

“…Abstract Carbon pricing is a core climate policy in many countries. However, the distribution of impacts is highly unequal across income brackets, but also…”
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The physical economy of the European Union: Cross-country comparison and determinants of material consumption by Weisz, Helga, Krausmann, Fridolin, Amann, Christof, Eisenmenger, Nina, Erb, Karl-Heinz, Hubacek, Klaus, Fischer-Kowalski, Marina

“…In this paper we investigate what determines observed differences in economy-wide material use among the EU-15 member states. The empirical basis for our…”
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Progress towards sustainability? What the conceptual framework of material and energy flow accounting (MEFA) can offer by Haberl, Helmut, Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, Krausmann, Fridolin, Weisz, Helga, Winiwarter, Verena

“…Sustainability science analyses society–nature interaction on a variety of spatial and temporal scales. By explaining the link between sustainability and…”
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Are waste hierarchies effective in reducing environmental impacts from food waste? A systematic review for OECD countries by Redlingshöfer, Barbara, Barles, Sabine, Weisz, Helga

“…•We assess the effectiveness of waste hierarchies in reducing environmental impacts from food waste.•We present a systematic interdisciplinary literature…”
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The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment by Lenzen, Manfred, Malik, Arunima, Li, Mengyu, Fry, Jacob, Weisz, Helga, Pichler, Peter-Paul, Chaves, Leonardo Suveges Moreira, Capon, Anthony, Pencheon, David

“…Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to…”
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The effects of environmental and non-environmental shocks on livelihoods and migration in Tanzania by Blocher, Julia M., Hoffmann, Roman, Weisz, Helga

“…Disruptive events and calamities can have major consequences for households in the predominantly agrarian communities of Eastern Africa. Here, we analyze the…”
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Climate change to exacerbate the burden of water collection on women’s welfare globally by Carr, Robert, Kotz, Maximilian, Pichler, Peter-Paul, Weisz, Helga, Belmin, Camille, Wenz, Leonie

“…Climate change is aggravating water scarcity worldwide. In rural households lacking access to running water, women often bear the responsibility for its…”
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The probability of the improbable: society-nature coevolution by Weisz, Helga

“…This article aims to show how evolutionary theory, social-metabolism and sociological systems theory can be utilized to develop a concept of society-nature…”
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Reducing energy and material flows in cities by Weisz, Helga, Steinberger, Julia K

“…In the decades to come, the majority of humans will live in urban settings. Consequently, the role of cities in reducing socio-economic material and energy…”
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Carbon emission trends and sustainability options in Austrian health care by Weisz, Ulli, Pichler, Peter-Paul, Jaccard, Ingram S., Haas, Willi, Matej, Sarah, Bachner, Florian, Nowak, Peter, Weisz, Helga

“…•Austria’s health carbon footprint was 6.8 million tons of CO2 in 2014.•Austria’s health carbon footprint declined by 14% between 2005 and 2014.•A large…”
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Consumption‐based Material Flow Accounting: Austrian Trade and Consumption in Raw Material Equivalents 1995–2007 by Schaffartzik, Anke, Eisenmenger, Nina, Krausmann, Fridolin, Weisz, Helga

“…Summary In 2007, imports accounted for approximately 34% of the material input (domestic extraction and imports) into the Austrian economy and almost 60% of…”
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