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{"title":"Accounting for learning in prospective LCA: Theory and practical guidance","authors":"Sander S. van Nielen,&nbsp;René Kleijn,&nbsp;Arnold Tukker","doi":"10.1111/jiec.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Learning is important for the development of industrially deployed technologies, and learning curves have been used to determine future production costs. Although the effect of learning on costs has been extensively studied, little evidence exists for its effect on environmental impacts, and a conceptual underpinning is lacking. Based on a review of theoretical foundations and empirical evidence, this study presents a procedure for assessing learning of industrial processes in ex ante and prospective life cycle assessment (LCA). We argue that learning involves operational or organizational changes, which are motivated by incentives. Therefore, environmental impacts may follow a learning curve trend if the origins of impacts coincide with dominant incentives. A key observation is that the results may vary by impact category, and certain impacts may not decline at all. Therefore, we developed guidelines that consider these differences when evaluating environmental learning effects and rates, as illustrated with examples in an LCA context. Further research is needed to expand the evidence base for environmental learning, by re-interpreting datasets of existing technologies to determine their learning rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 3","pages":"683-697"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.70002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"JIE 2024 reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jiec.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.70004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 1","pages":"409-412"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jiec.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.70009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.70009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Future disposal surge: A new quantification approach for predicting waste from external thermal insulation composite systems in Germany","authors":"Rafael Bischof,&nbsp;Rebekka Volk,&nbsp;Frank Schultmann","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13624","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study quantifies external thermal insulation composite systems (ETICS), in particular expanded polystyrene (EPS) as the insulation layer, installed in Germany between 1969 and 2022. Employing a bottom-up approach, it conducts mass quantification, localization at the NUTS-3 level, determination of installation years, and prediction of future waste for both ETICS in general and EPS ETICS specifically. The methodology involves categorizing the German residential and non-residential building stock into further subcategories and construction age classes to determine their respective insulation parameters such as insulation rate and thickness providing insights into the distribution of ETICS quantities across building categories and types, construction years, and administrative districts. Additionally, waste stream predictions are carried out through surveys on ETICS lifetimes and single-house-level sampling of probabilistic lifetimes. The findings project a quadrupling of annual EPS waste generation from ETICS by 2050 compared to today, with 79% attributed to residential and 21% to non-residential buildings, predominantly in urban areas. The results of the ETICS waste prediction indicate that currently established disposal routes are unfit to handle future waste generation, underlining the importance of alternative recycling paths for ETICS and improved waste disposal policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 3","pages":"670-682"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13624","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144255967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Management of paradoxical tensions in industrial symbiosis: An exploration at the inter-organizational level","authors":"Alice Alosi,&nbsp;Katrin Katana,&nbsp;Eleonora Annunziata,&nbsp;Murat Mirata,&nbsp;Francesco Rizzi,&nbsp;Marco Frey","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13625","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Industrial symbiosis (IS) is becoming a prominent inter-organizational approach for improved resources utilization and reduced emissions. IS literature and development efforts focus on interventions needed to overcome or eliminate various barriers, but pay inadequate attention to paradoxes that cannot be suppressed over time and require management. This study combines literature on paradox theory and IS, exploring the identification and management of paradoxical tensions in eight case studies. The results show that IS relationships trigger paradoxical tensions at the strategic and operational levels, surfaced within and between the organizations. These tensions seem to emerge from, and connected to, the persistence of a cooperation–competition paradox within organizations, when engaging with IS partners contradicts with an organization's competitiveness on the market. The study also provides insights into paradoxical tension management within and between organizations in IS relationships by, for example, shifting partner expectations in favor of IS development, separating responsibilities for IS and core activities between departments, or addressing diverging objectives between partners over time. Both at organizational and inter-organizational levels open dialogue, transparency, and collaboration appear to play key roles in tension management. The study emphasizes the pivotal role of active paradoxical tension management—both internally at strategic and operational levels and externally with partners and facilitators.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 2","pages":"602-616"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13625","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143826648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring automated tracking of chemicals through their conditions of use to support life cycle chemical assessment","authors":"John D. Chea,&nbsp;David E. Meyer,&nbsp;Raymond L. Smith,&nbsp;Sudhakar Takkellapati,&nbsp;Gerardo J. Ruiz-Mercado","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13626","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Modeling the fate of chemicals across their life cycle when considering all potential uses can be challenging because of the data gaps arising from issues like confidential business information (data accessibility) and complex processing schemes (involvement in formulations, reactions, and separations) across multiple industries, products, and applications. Thus, assessing chemicals for safety and/or sustainability requires developing an extensive knowledge of chemical releases along the various conditions of use (CoU) to identify potential impacts on human health and the environment. The first step in this process is mapping the flow of a chemical throughout its various downstream uses, which can be time-intensive. Here, a chemical mapping methodology is developed to qualitatively assess the allocation of a chemical of interest from its manufacture through its CoU in consumer, commercial, and industrial products. The chemical flow mapping combines knowledge from searches of publicly available data sources based on the chemical's Chemical Abstracts Service number to determine viable chemical flow paths. Examples of data sources when applying this approach to chemicals in the United States include the Chemical Data Reporting database, the Toxics Release Inventory, the North American Industry Classification System, and the Chemical and Products Database. The methodology is demonstrated using case studies of methylene chloride and triphenyl phosphate. The value of this approach is its ability to be automated and enable rapid determination of the life cycle chemical flow for expedited chemical assessment.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 2","pages":"590-601"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143826793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intentions of housing developers to reuse wood materials in buildings","authors":"Marie Renée Sørum Gangsø,&nbsp;Gudbrand Lien,&nbsp;Mehmet Mehmetoglu,&nbsp;Hanne Kathrine Sjølie,&nbsp;Ståle Størdal","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13618","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The environmental impacts of the construction industry can be decreased by enhancing material circularity. This study explored the psychological factors that influence the intention of housing developers to use recycled wood materials in construction projects. A cross-sectional survey (<i>n</i> = 138) was conducted in the fall of 2022 in southern Norway. A conceptual model was developed and tested to integrate the theory of planned behavior and institutional theory. The model incorporates three behavioral variables (behavioral attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control), regulatory and market factors, and previous reuse behavior to investigate their direct and indirect impacts on reuse intention. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses. In addition, a bootstrapping test was used to examine the potential mediating effects. The conceptual model explained a large proportion (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>R</mi>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 <annotation>$R^2$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> = 53 %) of the intentions of housing developers to use recycled wood materials in construction projects in the next 5 years. The results reveal that previous reuse behavior, behavioral attitude, perceived behavioral control, and regulatory and market factors positively impact the intention to use recycled wood materials, while subjective norms do not have a significant effect. This suggests that changes in the use of recycled materials do not originate from consumer requirements. Easy access to materials, information, and suitable regulations and standards can improve the intention to use recycled wood in construction projects. Thus, this may be a first step toward establishing an industrialized value chain for recycled wood materials for construction.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 2","pages":"574-589"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13618","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143827067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Regional sensitivity analysis to assess critical parameters in circular economy interventions: An application to the dynamic MFA model","authors":"Yusuke Fujii,&nbsp;Ken Matsuoka,&nbsp;Ryu Koide,&nbsp;Nobuaki Shinojima,&nbsp;Shinsuke Murakami","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13623","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In evaluating a circular economy (CE), one needs to address the complexity arising from indicators with multiple objectives, multiple means of implementation with combinations of CE strategies, and the uncertainty inherent in resource cycle systems. Regional sensitivity analysis (RSA) is a version of global sensitivity analysis that can be used to determine whether the output variables of a mathematical model lie within a certain range. Although RSA has found application in a wide range of fields, no prior studies sought to apply the method to industrial ecology. In this study, RSA is applied to a dynamic material flow analysis (MFA) model to identify the essential factors and analyze the conditions under which two indicators, greenhouse gas emissions and total material requirement, are influenced, in the case studies for digital cameras and smartphones. To this end, RSA with 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations were performed. Two factors were found to be especially important: (1) controlling the collection channels of end-of-life products, and (2) encouraging consumers to use products over a longer period. It was also suggested that, for ambitious reductions in environmental impacts, the achievement of targets should be given priority over the speed of implementation of strategies. To avoid catastrophic environmental impacts, the first step should be to ensure higher recycling rates using well-developed collection routes. This study represents a major step forward from simply forecasting future cycles with the dynamic MFA model to the application of RSA to systematically consider parameter uncertainties with various possibilities of combined circular economy strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 2","pages":"429-439"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13623","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143827068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the value ecosystem of digital product passports","authors":"Anna Gieß,&nbsp;Frederik Möller","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13621","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Digital product passports (DPPs) are an emerging digital technology that advances the circular economy (CE) by facilitating inter-organizational data sharing and life-cycle management of products. This paper investigates DPP value ecosystems, articulated through the e³-value modeling language, to address the research question: How to model the value ecosystem of digital product passports as boundary objects by identifying and analyzing the relevant actors, their needs, and the connections between them? Utilizing a systematic literature review, secondary data collection from active DPP instances, and gray literature, we construct a comprehensive e³-value model. The model delineates the interactions and value flows among key stakeholders, including manufacturers, suppliers, consumers, end-of-life actors, and regulatory authorities. A specific application of the model is demonstrated through the battery passport, mandated by the EU Battery Regulation. The findings suggest that DPPs enhance transparency, regulatory compliance, and sustainable practices by providing detailed product lifecycle data. The study underlines the necessity for clear data-sharing guidelines and highlights the multifaceted roles of DPPs in supporting a CE.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 2","pages":"561-573"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13621","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143826937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How decarbonization and the circular economy interact: Benefits and trade-offs in the case of the buildings, transport, and electricity sectors in Austria","authors":"W. Haas,&nbsp;A. Baumgart,&nbsp;N. Eisenmenger,&nbsp;D. Virág,&nbsp;G. Kalt,&nbsp;M. Sommer,&nbsp;K. Kratena,&nbsp;I. Meyer","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13619","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The widely heralded decarbonization of economies is a significant intervention in countries' societal metabolism, which eliminates the use of fossil fuels but also requires renewing societal stocks such as buildings, vehicles, and power plants, which in turn requires materials and energy. The circular economy (CE) shifts a country's metabolism toward less material demand, waste, and emissions, moving away from a linear resource flow pattern to one that narrows and slows flows and closes loops, in order to support climate protection. This article uses the example of Austria to examine how decarbonization and CE interact in the buildings, transport, and electricity sectors. We use scenarios to analyze the contribution of decarbonization and CE strategies to achieve targets set by Austrian policy: (1) carbon neutrality by 2040, (2) ambitious reductions in material consumption, and (3) limiting annual land take. A scenario focusing on “decarbonization” alone reduces processed materials by 7% compared to the reference scenario, but is associated with high risks: it requires large supplies of green electricity, technology-critical elements, and smooth permitting procedures. A “weak CE” scenario shows little mitigating effects on these risks. CE and land take targets are missed in the two scenarios. Avoiding further expansion of buildings and roads on unbuilt land as part of a “strong CE” scenario is identified as key to narrow the processed materials of respective sectors from 102 to 26 Mt/a consistent with all three policy targets. It reduces inter alia demand for green electricity facilitating decarbonization and additionally generating co-benefits for health.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 2","pages":"531-545"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13619","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143826827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}