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{"title":"Iron ore substitution and carbon emission reduction by scrap steel recycling under carbon neutrality goal","authors":"Bin Zhang,&nbsp;Yang Lu,&nbsp;Hao Li,&nbsp;Niu Niu,&nbsp;Qingyao Xin,&nbsp;Changqing Xu,&nbsp;Zhaohua Wang","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13600","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As the world's largest steel production country, China annually produces more than 50% of global steel, which relies on around 70% of iron ore imports in the last decade. Promoting scrap steel recycling is essential to reduce the heavy dependence on imported iron ore and simultaneously mitigate CO₂ emissions. This study used the GCAM model (Global Change Analysis Model) and the dynamic MFA model to quantify the amount of scrap steel that would be generated under the carbon neutrality goal (CNG). Furthermore, we provided different scrap steel recycling scenarios to explore the potential of iron ore savings and the reduction of CO₂ emissions during 2020–2060. The results showed that the annual steel production would be reduced to 525.2 Mt in 2060 under CNG, but a total of 470.3 Mt of iron ore would still be required annually. The quantity of scrap steel generated is expected to increase annually, reaching a cumulative total of 16941.37 Mt between 2020 and 2060. With increasing the scrap steel recycling rate, under optimal conditions, savings in iron ore and mitigation of CO₂ emissions could reach 6447.1 and 3132.4 Mt, respectively, cumulatively during the period from 2020 to 2060. Furthermore, iron ore demand could be met domestically by 2050, eliminating the need for imports. By extending the lifetime of construction, the overall reduction in steel production would be 1064.1 Mt from 2020 to 2060. Meanwhile, 1883.1 Mt of iron ore can be saved and 889.6 Mt of CO₂ can be mitigated accumulatively.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 1","pages":"217-232"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466234","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":"Oil discovery, energy transition, and the decline in wholesale prices during the Great Depression","authors":"Christopher A. Kennedy","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13602","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Statistical tests are used to examine the role of prices for petroleum, coal, and farm products in the Great Depression. A new empirical mapping of relationships between monthly energy and farm product prices and key macroeconomic variables shows how biophysical factors intersected with the price system in the 1930s US economy. Deflation was a critical feature of the Depression, with the US aggregate wholesale price index falling by 37 percentage points between October 1929 and February 1933. Petroleum product prices and farm product prices can explain 89% of changes to the aggregate wholesale price index over the 1930s. Granger causality tests show that petroleum product prices led changes to money supply in the 1930s, by 8 months, while farm product and all-commodities prices Granger caused changes to industrial production. Changes in prices from October 1929 to February 1933 varied substantially between commodities, with prices of coal, metals, and building materials—the essential ingredients for capital formation—all increasing in real terms. Real bituminous coal prices are found to Granger cause changes to money supply, personal income, and industrial production over the 1930s. Overall, the results add further support to the hypothesis that the Great Depression was caused by an energy transition, following discovery of large quantities of petroleum in the US Southwest.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 1","pages":"233-245"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13602","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466235","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":"Implementing industrial and territorial ecology: The role of proximity and intermediaries in three French case studies","authors":"André Torre,&nbsp;Sébastien Bourdin,&nbsp;Sabrina Dermine-Brullot,&nbsp;Maël Jambou","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13598","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the challenges companies face when establishing cooperative relationships to implement industrial ecology initiatives. It examines the effectiveness of methodological devices in fostering inter-firm relations and creating a favorable environment for executing industrial ecology strategies. The theoretical framework of proximities is used to analyze the nature of the connections that form between firms based on these strategies. Based on interviews and social network analysis from three case studies in France, the study concludes that geographical proximity is important for cooperative relationships, but it is not enough on its own. The activation of organized proximities requires intermediary actors and methodological devices. In addition, these collaborations need consistent and effective support to ensure their long-term sustainability; without such support, they tend to be short lived.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 1","pages":"204-216"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466233","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":"Social life cycle assessment and its methodological challenges: A bibliometric and content analysis","authors":"Qianwen Huang,&nbsp;Yue Sun,&nbsp;Qi Guo,&nbsp;Qizheng Li,&nbsp;Ying Zhang,&nbsp;Xin Li,&nbsp;Laili Wang","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13605","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) has garnered significant attention in academia and the business sector. To enhance the guidance of S-LCA application and future research, it is imperative to conduct a thorough analysis of its research status and challenges, considering the extensive development of methodological approaches. Leveraging bibliometric and content analysis on 452 articles from the Web of Science database, this study examines publication trends and delineates the conceptual structure and coupling themes within the S-LCA field. Through an amalgamation of bibliometric findings and a comparative analysis between life cycle assessment and S-LCA, the study outlines prominent challenges. Five primary issues related to inventory construction and data conversion, as identified through content analysis, are presented. This article comprehensively reveals a deep understanding of research status and faced challenges, serving as a complement for future practitioners and researchers.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 1","pages":"264-278"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466237","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.13422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13422","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"28 6","pages":"1339-1346"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13422","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253184","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":"Linking regional MFA models: Understanding disparities within the global zinc cycle","authors":"L. Rostek,&nbsp;A. Loibl","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13588","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Circular economy and criticality assessments require comprehensive monitoring of anthropogenic material flows and stocks at a regional level. Therefore, this study presents a multiregional trade-linked dynamic MFA model for zinc. The model covers the entire life cycle from mining to recycling for the regions China, Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia. The dynamic approach allows the analysis of the development of the cycles from 1995 to 2020. The interregional trade is quantified at each life cycle stage by using the Comtrade database. Sensitivity analysis is applied to account for uncertainties in the exogenous data. The results reveal large regional disparities in the zinc industry. While China shows enormous growth, Europe has already reached a steady state in zinc consumption and anthropogenic stock. The current global consumption is strongly driven by China, leading to a strong increase of its zinc stock in use. However, Europe has the largest zinc stock in use, especially on a per capita basis. North America's zinc consumption is decoupled from its economic growth, as evidenced by the recent decline in its zinc stock in use. In terms of recycling, Europe shows the highest volumes and the best circular performance, as indicated by high recycling rates, partly due to the extensive use of more easily recyclable product types. In all regions, there is potential for increased recycling by treatment of zinc-bearing steelmaking dusts. China's strict regulation successfully triggered large-scale implementation of respective recovery processes, leading to increasing recycling rates. This article met the requirements for a gold-gold <i>JIE</i> data openness badge described at http://jie.click/badges.</p><p></p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 1","pages":"173-184"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13588","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466249","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":"Weighing the global built environment: High-resolution mapping and quantification of material stocks in buildings","authors":"Helmut Haberl,&nbsp;André Baumgart,&nbsp;Julian Zeidler,&nbsp;Franz Schug,&nbsp;David Frantz,&nbsp;Daniela Palacios-Lopez,&nbsp;Tomer Fishman,&nbsp;Yoav Peled,&nbsp;Bowen Cai,&nbsp;Doris Virág,&nbsp;Patrick Hostert,&nbsp;Dominik Wiedenhofer,&nbsp;Thomas Esch","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13585","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Buildings provide indispensable services for human well-being, but their construction and use are responsible for a substantial fraction of societies’ resource requirements and greenhouse gas emissions. Mapping and quantifying the material stocks in buildings is a key research frontier in industrial ecology. Reliable and spatially highly resolved maps of material stocks in buildings worldwide are so far not available. Existing approaches based on nighttime light data allow large-scale coverage, but their spatial resolution is usually ∼0.5–1 km. Other methods using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and cadaster data achieve higher resolution and accuracy, but do not allow wall-to-wall mapping of large regions. Based on high-resolution Earth Observation data combined with material intensity factors (kg per m³ of building volume), we quantify and map material stocks in buildings at the unprecedented resolution of 90 m globally. We distinguish 18 types of materials in five types of buildings. We find that global material stocks in buildings amount to 547 (391–672) Gt, approximately half of total global societal material stocks. We find highly unequal distributions of material stocks in buildings per capita and per unit area of each country. Our results agree well with previous detailed estimates of material stocks in buildings in dedicated regions or individual cities. Improved and harmonized material intensity factors emerge as a key research area for improving the accuracy of material stock maps. Our results are available as data products with high spatial and thematic resolution to facilitate future studies; for example, of secondary resource potentials. This article met the requirements for a gold-gold <i>JIE</i> data openness badge described at http://jie.click/badges.</p><p></p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 1","pages":"159-172"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13585","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466229","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":"Green hydrogen production by PEM water electrolysis up to the year 2050: Prospective life cycle assessment using learning curves","authors":"Jan Christian Koj,&nbsp;Petra Zapp,&nbsp;Christoph Wieland,&nbsp;Klaus Görner,&nbsp;Wilhelm Kuckshinrichs","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13592","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Water electrolysis technologies for producing green hydrogen are promising options for avoiding the use of fossil fuels and thus limiting climate change. Hydrogen can be used in a variety of sectors, enabling sector coupling, and strengthening the security of the energy supply through its storability. Environmental impacts provoked by green hydrogen production are comparatively low and improving manufacturing processes and technological advances will enable to further reduce the demand for raw materials and electricity and thus the environmental impacts. The objective of this study is to compare the status quo with prospective trends and target values. Learning curves of expected specific electricity demand and critical raw material (CRM) intensity are applied, and environmental impacts are subsequently analyzed via life cycle assessment. This study focuses on the polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis technology. As a result of the calculated learning curves, the CRM intensity could be reduced by more than 96% between 2022 and 2050. The specific electricity demand is projected to be reduced by 11.2%–22.5%. Combining the extrapolated reductions of electricity and CRM demand, a climate change impact decrease of 16.5%–28.5% is possible for green hydrogen production until the year 2050.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 1","pages":"145-158"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13592","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466186","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":"Characterization of national eco-industrial park projects in China, Korea, and Japan: Bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review","authors":"Agusta Samodra Putra,&nbsp;Liang Dong,&nbsp;Yujin Park,&nbsp;Hung-Suck Park","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13579","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Eco-industrial parks (EIPs) promote sustainable industrial development by integrating environmental, economic, and social objectives. China, Japan, and Korea have reported significant achievements on EIPs. This paper conducted an integrated bibliometric analysis and systematic literatures review to characterize their national EIP initiatives and draw out their success factors. The bibliometric analysis was conducted on EIP research articles from 1998 to 2022, with keywords related to locally specified EIPs plus the country name. Three hundred and sixty-one peer-reviewed articles (China: 300; Korea: 30; and Japan: 31) are analyzed. Keywords analysis highlighted “environmental benefit,” “carbon emission,” and “eco-industrial development” for China; “symbiosis,” “society,” and “recycling industry” for Japan; and “symbiosis network,” “emission,” and “eco-industrial parks” for Korea. These results well match with the fact that China's EIP was featured as establishing centralized industrial infrastructure facilitated by circular economy and environmental policies. Korean EIP focused on building industrial symbiosis (IS) networks by business model, emphasizing EIP transition. Eco-town program in Japan emphasized waste recycling and landfill minimization to promote eco-innovation with environmental technology advancement. The in-depth literature review of these EIP programs based on the evolution, planning, implementation, and evaluation presents the specific characteristics of the EIP program in each country. All the programs are incorporated into national policy and development strategy with specific financial support and incentives for project incubation, enabling scheme and business model for project scale up, as well as collaborative government (central and local) and public–private partnership in their contexts. These lessons are expected to be customized based on the target countries’ situations to scale up and mainstream EIP implementation globally.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 1","pages":"96-112"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466201","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":"Global material flows and resource productivity: The 2024 update","authors":"Heinz Schandl,&nbsp;Raymundo Marcos-Martinez,&nbsp;James West,&nbsp;Alessio Miatto,&nbsp;Stephan Lutter,&nbsp;Mirko Lieber,&nbsp;Stefan Giljum,&nbsp;Manfred Lenzen,&nbsp;Mengyu Li,&nbsp;Heming Wang,&nbsp;Hiroki Tanikawa,&nbsp;Fridolin Krausmann,&nbsp;Nina Eisenmenger,&nbsp;Marina Fischer-Kowalski","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13593","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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-based indicators. These data have been assembled by a consortium of research partners that compile the global material flow and resource productivity online database for the International Resource Panel, which contributes to the global dataset for the System of Environmental–Economic Accounting (SEEA) framework and is employed to monitor progress for the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators 8.4 and 12.2. We present the main findings of the 2024 update, including methodological improvements and result differences, and discuss the main findings and limitations. Since the last update, we have identified a slowing of global materials extraction since about 2014, a continuation of solid growth in direct trade of materials and products, persistent inequality in resource use between high- and low-income countries, and a prolonged improvement in global material productivity. The full dataset used herein can be downloaded from the Global Material Flow Database hosted by the United Nations Environment Program International Resource Panel.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"28 6","pages":"2012-2031"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13593","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253171","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}