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{"title":"Review: Leather sustainability, an industrial ecology in process","authors":"Agnès Thomasset,&nbsp;Stéphane Benayoun","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13547","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Leather production is a historic industry that still has an economic influence throughout the world. Leather making is done following a sequence of complex chemical and mechanical steps, using energy, quantity of water and chemicals, and generating waste. For several decades, many organizations have been working toward a cleaner tannery industry resulting in better practices, saving energy and water, and increasing wastewater treatment efficiency. Solid waste management remains a big issue. Another question posed today is the use of chromium in tanning. It is why a lot of research is now dedicated to metal-free tanning solutions. Chromium alternatives exist but none can actually rival all the advantages of chromium and a balance must be found with environmental issues. To measure the environmental performance of leather, several tools are available. The LWG (Leather Working Group) audit is one of them. On the side of consumers, some reliable leather ecolabelings exist. Finally, life cycle assessment (LCA) is the most exhaustive tool for characterizing leather's environmental performance. Numerous LCA studies done in the past two decades underline the difficulty in obtaining general results, considering the large variety of processes used depending on tanneries, localization, and raw materials. In addition, the data available for LCA are still poor in regard to the specific data needed for leather chemicals. The best methods associated with new technologies, audit, and labeling lead leather production into a cleaner and environment-friendly industry.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"28 6","pages":"1842-1856"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13547","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252704","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":"Integrating material flow analysis and supply chain resilience analysis to study silicon carbide","authors":"Catrin Böcher,&nbsp;Benjamin Sprecher,&nbsp;Tomer Fishman","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13541","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Silicon carbide (SiC) is a niche nonmetallic material that is essential in many industrial processes. Here, we integrate material flow analysis and supply chain resilience analysis to understand global SiC stocks and flows and to assess its supply chain. We use industry interviews to fill data gaps and collect information on the SiC system to overcome data scarcity. We find that globally around 1000 kt of SiC is produced each year. The biggest use of SiC is the abrasives industry (40%), followed by metallurgy (28%), refractories (20%), technical ceramics (0.7%), other uses (0.7%), and semiconductors (0.01%). As an energy-intensive material, the SiC supply chain is under pressure, increasing the relevance of resilience considerations. Besides typical supply chain risks such as low diversity of supply and geopolitical trade restrictions, SiC particularly faces risks due to its energy-intensive production process and associated emissions. In the SiC semiconductor supply chain, losses of nearly 75% are a particular issue. Due to high demand in the SiC market, stockpiles are negligible, and substitution is difficult in most sectors. We find that in the case of SiC, sustainability measures such as use reduction, recycling, or decreasing energy use or emissions would also positively contribute to supply chain resilience. 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":"28 6","pages":"1830-1841"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13541","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252769","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":"Middle-out evolution of greenfield eco-industrial parks: The journey of GreenLab, Denmark","authors":"L. Mortensen,&nbsp;L. Kørnøv,&nbsp;A. N. Gjerding,&nbsp;E. Rattigan,&nbsp;L. Schlüter","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13569","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Transforming into eco-industrial parks (EIPs) by applying collaborative measures and stakeholder engagement is a practical and political response to the decline of current industrial parks, and a solution for fostering sustainable industrial development. While the brownfield approach (EIP development through retrofits and new strategies of existing establishments) is common, greenfield development—where sustainability is inherent in planning, design, and construction—is gaining interest. The present study uses the case of GreenLab in Denmark to explore the emergence and development of greenfield EIPs, showcasing the potential of a middle-out approach and emphasizing the role of curation in contrast to top-down and bottom-up processes. The study draws on a process-model analytical framework, encompassing the evolutionary phases, the actors involved, and the co-creation of the journey. The development of GreenLab is found to have passed through three phases of evolution: pre-emergence, emergence, and probation, increasing the “networkness” in the business park. We point to several critical factors that drove these phases, among which shared vision, road mapping, and engagement and political support from local, regional, and national actors are critical. Furthermore, strategic planning, continuous funding, and strong collaboration with research institutions have been essential. The replication potential of GreenLab is substantial, and the experiences accumulated over the years can guide other greenfield EIPs and new research avenues considering greenfield EIPs.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"28 6","pages":"1816-1829"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13569","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252742","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":"Estimating the carbon footprint of digital agriculture deployment: A parametric bottom-up modeling approach","authors":"Pierre La Rocca,&nbsp;Gaël Guennebaud,&nbsp;Aurélie Bugeau,&nbsp;Anne-Laure Ligozat","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13568","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Digitalization appears as a lever to enhance agriculture sustainability. However, existing works on digital agriculture's own sustainability remain scarce, disregarding the environmental effects of deploying digital devices on a large scale. We propose a bottom-up method to estimate the carbon footprint of digital agriculture scenarios considering deployment of devices over a diversity of farm sizes. It is applied to two use-cases and demonstrates that digital agriculture encompasses a diversity of devices with heterogeneous carbon footprints and that more complex devices yield higher footprints not always compensated by better performances or scaling gains. By emphasizing the necessity of considering the multiplicity of devices, and the territorial distribution of farm sizes when modeling digital agriculture deployments, this study highlights the need for further exploration of the first-order effects of digital technologies in agriculture.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"28 6","pages":"1801-1815"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13568","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252438","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":"PULPO: A framework for efficient integration of life cycle inventory models into life cycle product optimization","authors":"Fabian Lechtenberg,&nbsp;Robert Istrate,&nbsp;Victor Tulus,&nbsp;Antonio Espuña,&nbsp;Moisès Graells,&nbsp;Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13561","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jiec.13561","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This work presents the PULPO (<b>P</b>ython-based <b>u</b>ser-defined <b>l</b>ifecycle <b>p</b>roduct <b>o</b>ptimization) framework, developed to efficiently integrate life cycle inventory (LCI) models into life cycle product optimization. Life cycle optimization (LCO), which has found interest in both the process systems engineering and life cycle assessment (LCA) communities, leverages LCA data to go beyond simple assessments of a limited number of alternatives and identify the best possible product systems configuration subject to a manifold of choices, constraints, and objectives. However, typically, aggregated inventories are used to build the optimization problems. Contrary to existing frameworks, PULPO integrates whole LCI databases and user inventories as a backbone for the optimization problem, considering economy-wide feedback loops between fore- and background systems that would otherwise be omitted. The open-source implementation combines functions from Brightway2 for the manipulation of inventory data and pyomo for the formulation and solution of the optimization problem. The advantages of this approach are demonstrated in a case study focusing on the design of optimal future global green methanol production systems from captured CO₂ and electrolytic H₂. It is shown that the approach can be used to assess sector-coupling with multi-functional processes and prospective background databases that would otherwise be impractical to approach from a standalone LCA perspective. The use of PULPO is particularly appealing when evaluating large-scale decisions that have a strong impact on socioeconomic systems, resulting in changes in the technosphere on which the background system is based and which is often assumed constant in standard LCO approaches regardless of the decisions taken. 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":"28 6","pages":"1449-1463"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11667648/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142895318","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":"EXIOBASE energy accounts: Improving precision in an open-sourced procedure applicable to any MRIO database","authors":"Kajwan Rasul,&nbsp;Sarah Schmidt,&nbsp;Edgar G. Hertwich,&nbsp;Richard Wood","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13563","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As environmentally extended input–output tables are increasingly used for footprint and supply chain analysis, there has been a growing demand for precise, reliable, and intertemporally consistent environmental accounts. Energy accounts are particularly relevant. As well as providing insights into embodied energy, in the case of the multi-regional input–output (MRIO) database EXIOBASE, they are the basis of the air emissions from fuel combustion. In this study we review previous methods and provide a more integrated and robust implementation for the EXIOBASE energy accounts that ensures higher levels of consistency between economic and physical data. Our results show that the new procedure significantly improves the precision of the energy use coefficients and multipliers, while reducing the number of outliers. The procedure is made publicly available for full transparency and made open source such that users and developers may raise issues and suggest improvements to the procedure. Furthermore, the procedure is standardized so it can be applied to any MRIO model with only minor adjustments to the input data.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"28 6","pages":"1771-1785"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13563","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252370","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":"Examining changes in household carbon footprints across generations in the UK using decomposition analysis","authors":"Anne Owen,&nbsp;Milena Büchs","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13567","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To meet climate targets, consumption-based household emissions need to fall rapidly. An important but still poorly understood question is whether generational change could contribute to decreases in emissions. It is sometimes assumed that younger generations such as Millennials and Generation Z are more concerned about climate change and have greener lifestyles than previous generations of the Silent Generation, Baby boomers, and Generation X, but carbon footprinting analysis typically focuses on age groups rather than comparing generations over time. This paper provides a first assessment of the change in consumption-based carbon footprints of the Silent, Baby boomer, Generation X, and Millennial generations within the United Kingdom between 2001 and 2020 and a comparison of the footprints of different generational groups. The analysis is based on environmentally extended input–output analysis, using the Living Costs and Food Survey and emission data from the UK multi-regional input–output database. We find some evidence for the hypothesis that younger generations have smaller footprints than older generations as Generation X and Millennial households have smaller carbon footprints compared to the generation before them at a similar life stage. We find that factors such as decarbonization, household occupancy, total expenditure, and changing consumption patterns contribute to the UK's changing carbon consumption emissions between 2001 and 2020, and the importance of these factors varies for different generational groups. However, future research that uses a longer time series is required to assess generational differences in carbon footprints over the whole lifespan of several generations.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"28 6","pages":"1786-1800"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13567","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252371","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":"The environmental costs of clean cycles: Quantitative analysis for the case of PVC window profile recycling in Germany","authors":"Sarah Schmidt,&nbsp;Thomas Gibon,&nbsp;Tomás Navarrete Gutiérrez,&nbsp;Katrina-Magdalena Lindemann,&nbsp;David Laner","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13559","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recycling schemes for long-lived products are challenged by the presence of “legacy substances,” which have been used in production in the past, but are nowadays classified as substances of concern. This study quantitatively evaluates the trade-offs between phasing out legacy substances, increasing circularity levels, and reducing life cycle impacts of polyvinylchloride (PVC) window profiles recycling in Germany based on a comprehensive dynamic material and substance flow analysis coupled with a prospective life cycle assessment. Scenario results indicate that although lead had been phased out in virgin PVC by 2015, lead concentrations in end-of-life PVC window profiles will remain above 0.3% until the end of the century without a restriction of lead in recycled PVC and will be by factor 3–5 higher compared to a restriction as stipulated by EU 2023/923. However, the latter is associated with lower recycling rates and higher life cycle environmental impacts of PVC window frame waste management, which cannot be fully compensated by the introduction of new waste treatment pathways using currently available technologies. The study serves to introduce a new comprehensive modeling framework, which allows for the consideration of trade-offs between substance, material, and environmental impact dimensions as a basis for discussing and developing sustainable waste management strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"28 6","pages":"1755-1770"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.13559","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252369","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":"Examining global biodiversity accounts: Implications of aggregating characterization factors from elementary flows in multi-regional input–output analysis","authors":"Killian Davin,&nbsp;Maximilian Koslowski,&nbsp;Martin Dorber,&nbsp;Edgar Hertwich","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13556","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jiec.13556","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Extending multi-regional input–output (MRIO) models with spatially explicit life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) models allows practitioners to quantify biodiversity impacts at every step of global supply chains. Inconsistencies may be introduced, however, when high-resolution characterization factors (CFs) are aggregated so as to match the low spatial granularity of MRIO models. These aggregation errors are greater when CFs are aggregated via proxies, such as ecoregion land shares, instead of based on spatially explicit elementary stressor flows. Here, we describe our approach to tailoring application-specific CFs for use in MRIO studies. We apply a global agricultural production model, Spatial Production Allocation Model (MapSPAM), with the LCIA database, LC-IMPACT, to create crop-specific national CFs. We investigated i) if the differing aggregation approaches and the increased spatial explicitness of the constructed CFs deviate substantially from those in LC-IMPACT, and ii) what the resulting consequences for national production and consumption-based biodiversity footprints are when combining the tailor-made CFs with the EXIOBASE MRIO model. For the year 2020, we observe an increase in global production-based biodiversity impacts of 23.5% for land use when employing crop-specific CFs.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"28 6","pages":"1422-1434"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11667647/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142895276","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":"From schools of thought to an ecology of practices: Categorizing circular economy's futures","authors":"Ryan Nolan,&nbsp;Esmaeil Khedmati Morasae,&nbsp;Mike Michael","doi":"10.1111/jiec.13564","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jiec.13564","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In response to pressing societal challenges, scholars are increasingly focusing on research aimed at fostering sustainable futures. We contribute to that discussion by theorizing the circular economy (CE) as an “ecology of practices.” The ecology of practices concept helps to make sense of a developing field that has been heavily practitioner-driven. Through an analysis of the diverse CE practices in analytical and operational contexts, we investigate the roles, disciplinary influences, and visions for the future and categorize their trajectories. Drawing on the sociology of expectations, we consider the articulations of CE in practice, advocating for inclusive dialogue among stakeholders and collective engagement with ontological multiplicity in shaping CE futures. We propose a framework that contributes to broader debates in organization and management studies, emphasizing the significance of everyday practices in shaping sustainable futures beyond the realm of CE. In so doing, we focus on unpicking how sustainable futures are variously enacted as a way of enabling collaboration that might otherwise be hindered by disciplinary obligations.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"28 6","pages":"1730-1742"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11667667/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142895295","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}