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{"title":"Encounter the unforeseen: Resilient supply chain modeling for a sustainable bioeconomy","authors":"Martin Bruckler,&nbsp;Lars Wietschel,&nbsp;Selina Sartor,&nbsp;Andrea Thorenz,&nbsp;Axel Tuma","doi":"10.1111/jiec.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Bioeconomic supply chains (BioSC) processing biogenic resources and substituting fossil-based products are prone to weather-induced feedstock supply disruptions, which likely increase in severity and frequency due to climate change. To attain supply security of biobased products that contribute to sustainable development, BioSCs should be equipped with a certain level of “resilience” against unexpected feedstock fluctuations. Existing BioSC models usually capture producer resilience to maximize profitability for anticipated feedstock scenarios. Consumer supply security for unanticipated events has drawn less attention. To encounter the unforeseen and both producer and consumer perspectives, we present a two-step approach: (1) resilient planning of a European BioSC producing bioethanol as petrol substitute from straw for both producer and consumer perspective; a novel step (2) assesses the “actual” resilience for unanticipated, random feedstock scenarios and economic, and environmental implications. While a producer-resilient supply chain has lower bioethanol production capacity and already high straw storage capacities to maximize profitability under feedstock fluctuations, supply security degrades. In contrast, consumer-resilient supply chains have higher production and storage capacities to maintain supply security. Although this network redundancy comes with higher environmental impacts from facility construction and supply chain operation (production and transport), the environmental benefit of substituting petrol exceeds those burdens in most environmental life cycle assessment categories. Consequently, consumer resilience can be congruent with environmental sustainability and should be supported by policymakers to strengthen European bioeconomy and guide producers toward consumer-resilient supply chains. 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 3","pages":"908-923"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.70027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256047","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 updated and improved method for water scarcity impact assessment in LCA, AWARE2.0","authors":"Georg Seitfudem,&nbsp;Markus Berger,&nbsp;Hannes Müller Schmied,&nbsp;Anne-Marie Boulay","doi":"10.1111/jiec.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Supported by the Life Cycle Initiative, in 2018, the Water Use in Life Cycle Assessment (WULCA) working group published Available Water Remaining (AWARE), a consensus-based method for water scarcity impact assessment. This article presents AWARE2.0, an update based on new data and an improved calculation process and recommended by the authors of the original AWARE publication. Water availability for 1990–2019 and the global water consumption inventory of 2019 are modeled with the global hydrological model WaterGAP2.2e. AWARE2.0 refines the calculations for river deltas, inland sinks, and subdivided river basins and furthermore benefits from an improved representation of basin area, increased responsiveness of environmental water requirements to seasonal flow patterns, and a more appropriate water consumption definition. This work analyses differences between AWARE and AWARE2.0 and the influence of the improvements on the characterization factors (CFs). The update is relevant to life cycle assessment, since more than half of the water consumption inventory is linked to CFs changing by more than 10%. Globally relevant changes mainly result from the new input data including the temporal reference period, whereas other improvements target individual types of basins, sometimes changing their CFs by two orders of magnitude. The AWARE2.0 CFs are provided for 9406 basins and the country definitions of ecoinvent and GLAM. 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 3","pages":"891-907"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256313","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":"Urban–industrial symbiosis recommendation platform for urban factories: Leveraging historical exchange patterns through feature analysis for real-world applications","authors":"Philipp Grimmel,&nbsp;Jan Felix Niemeyer,&nbsp;Chuan Fu Tan,&nbsp;Yajuan Sun,&nbsp;Yang Zhao,&nbsp;Nils Schöling,&nbsp;Zhiquan Yeo,&nbsp;Mark Mennenga,&nbsp;Vanessa Miriam Carlow,&nbsp;Christoph Herrmann","doi":"10.1111/jiec.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since the beginning of industrialization, the economic viability of manufacturing companies relied on the exploitation of natural resources. From 2000 to 2019, the global consumption of raw materials surged by 65%, with 70% of these materials being non-renewable. Addressing this unsustainable trajectory, the United Nations emphasizes “Responsible consumption and production” as a sustainable development goal (SDG 12), advocating for resource efficiency, circularity, and dematerialization of economic growth. In that context, industrial symbiosis (IS) emerges as a key strategy for sustainable industrial development. IS networks have demonstrated substantial environmental and economic benefits in supply chains. Urban areas, such as the Braunschweig region in Germany or Singapore, characterized by its diverse industries in close geographical proximity, present unique opportunities for IS. In parallel, there is a special demand to enhance the circular economy due to the high density of resource flows and the high dependency on external material supply and disposal. Against this background, this research introduces an IS recommendation system that relies on a knowledge database containing reported material exchange data from various industries. This system incorporates a knowledge-based matching methodology, which identifies potential symbiotic relationships by evaluating the suitability of different waste stream patterns. Additionally, a hierarchical matching method is developed to suggest potential IS partners based on multicriteria decision support. The proposed method is implemented, tested, and validated through a case study in Braunschweig and Singapore. Finally, recommendations for action are derived, and the methodology is critically reviewed for its effectiveness and applicability.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 3","pages":"656-669"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256311","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 does space matter? On the importance of embedding spatialities in industrial ecology frameworks for circularity in the built environment","authors":"Georg Schiller,&nbsp;Xiaoxue Gao,&nbsp;Maud Lanau,&nbsp;Andreas Blum,&nbsp;Ning Zhang,&nbsp;Mustafa Selçuk Çıdık","doi":"10.1111/jiec.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores the critical role of spatiality and scale in industrial ecology (IE) research to promote circularity within the built environment. Traditional IE frameworks are predominantly a-spatial and a-political, overlooking the complex socio-ecological–technological dynamics of urban–regional environments. This gap limits the development of holistic assessments and effective strategies for circularity, often externalizing political, economic, and societal implications. In this paper, we emphasize the need to integrate diverse spatial entities, such as social actors, natural resources, and infrastructure, into IE frameworks. Drawing on recent developments within the IE community (including insights from the ISIE 2023 conference) we demonstrate how multiple spatialities and politics are already integral to several areas of IE research and practice, such as circularity accounting and industrial symbiosis. We highlight how spatial concepts—such as urbanization patterns, geographic features, territory, place, and actor-networks—reveal context-specific drivers and barriers to circular transformation. We then leverage the concept of scales established across spatial sciences to introduce a typology of scales relevant to IE, and identify which scale types have yet to be operationalized in IE research. Given the potential analytical yield of each scale type, we advocate for a reflective multi-scalar approach to incorporate multiple spatialities into IE research. Ultimately, we call for a spatial turn in re-conceptualizing IE tools to support the transformation of the built environment toward circularity.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 3","pages":"645-655"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.70018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256396","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":"Differences in vehicle electrification policies and optimal transition periods across countries","authors":"Shohei Tokito,&nbsp;Yuya Nakamoto","doi":"10.1111/jiec.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Transitioning to electric vehicles has become a global carbon neutrality policy goal. However, vehicle electrification may have different outcomes depending on the energy mix scenario, average driving distance, vehicle lifetime, and vehicle manufacturing supply chain in a country. Hence, in this study, we applied the life cycle optimization approach to identify optimal car replacement periods, which would yield the lowest cumulative CO₂ emissions for 2020–2050 in six countries: China, Germany, Finland, India, Japan, and the United States. The results showed that a discrepancy is evident between the existing policies of Germany, Japan, and the United States. To optimize CO₂ emission reduction, these policies necessitate revision. Additionally, given the profound impact of region-specific parameters, such as driving distance and vehicle preferences, the United States should endeavor to develop state-specific policies predicated upon detailed state-level data.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 3","pages":"878-890"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256395","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":"Temporal and spatial evolution and network analysis of urban ecological resilience considering natural influences","authors":"Zhe Liu,&nbsp;Tongtong Liu","doi":"10.1111/jiec.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The urbanization process in China has to deal with numerous unique challenges, such as rapid urbanization, significant regional disparities, high natural resource consumption, severe environmental pollution, and difficulties in unified governance, all of which exacerbate the vulnerability of China's urban ecosystems. In order to investigate the urban ecological resilience (UER) in China, this study integrates natural factors into the ecological resilience assessment framework to evaluate UER in China. Using social network analysis based on a modified gravity model, the network structure characteristics of UER in China was assessed and the formation mechanism of spatial association networks was further explored, aiming to identify ecological vulnerabilities and resilient areas. The results indicate: (1) UER shows distinct regional differentiation, with a spatial distribution pattern exhibiting a gradient of decreasing values from east to west. In particular, economically developed areas in the eastern coastal regions show significant “radiation effects” in spatial associations, playing a “central” role in improving the overall UER of the region. (2) The overall network of UER is complex, but the network density is relatively low. The inter-regional connections and collaborative efforts in enhancing UER need to be strengthened. (3) Economic development level, innovation capacity, industrial structure, and geographical distance disparities in energy consumption significantly influenced the formation of spatial connections in UER across the nation. This study demonstrates the importance of strengthening inter-regional coordination and cooperation to enhance UER, providing empirical insights for the achievement of global sustainable development goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 3","pages":"863-877"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256221","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":"Targeting carbon reduction in UK households: A new segmentation model using financial transaction data","authors":"Jasmine Wells,&nbsp;Anna Trendl,&nbsp;Anne Owen,&nbsp;John Barrett,&nbsp;Norbert Jobst,&nbsp;David Leake","doi":"10.1111/jiec.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Designing effective and targeted policies to reduce household emissions needs to consider variability in household consumption patterns, preferences, and financial capacities. This paper introduces a new segmentation model of household carbon footprints that uses financial transaction data from over 700,000 customers of a major high-street bank. Our approach considers socioeconomic, consumer-preference, and spatial factors to identify 10 distinct household typologies. We focus on targeted retrofit as a practical application, identifying three high-impact household types with the capacity to invest—<i>“Suburban Home Improvers,” “Car and Tech Enthusiasts,”</i> and <i>“Affluent Families”—</i>and suggest targeted policy and communication opportunities. Our segmentation supports a new data-driven policy design that considers both the technical potential and diverse behavioral factors affecting decarbonization decisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 3","pages":"846-862"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.70020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256121","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":"Pricing firms’ biodiversity risk exposure: Empirical evidence from audit fees","authors":"Tobias Steindl,&nbsp;Stephan Küster,&nbsp;Sven Hartlieb","doi":"10.1111/jiec.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Our study explores whether and how financial auditors—one of the most important information intermediaries of financial markets—consider firms’ (i.e., their clients’) exposure to biodiversity risks when making audit pricing decisions. Based on the risk-oriented audit approach, we hypothesize that auditors price firms’ exposure to biodiversity risks if these risks have an impact on firms’ future economic conditions. Using a firm-specific biodiversity risk measure based on textual analyses of firms’ 10-K statements, we find that firms’ biodiversity risk exposure is associated with higher audit fees. However, this positive association is concentrated among firms operating in industries with high physical and transition biodiversity risks. Further tests reveal that auditors do not increase their audit efforts due to firms’ higher biodiversity risk exposure but rather charge an audit fee risk premium. We also find that this audit fee risk premium is only charged (i) by auditors located in US counties with heightened environmental awareness, (ii) when public attention to biodiversity is high, and (iii) after the implementation of a biodiversity policy initiative. Overall, our findings suggest that auditors have started to charge a biodiversity risk premium. Therefore, our study not only contributes to the academic (industrial ecology) literature but also has important implications for biodiversity advocates, policymakers, regulators, auditors, and managers.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 3","pages":"828-845"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.70014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256584","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":"Earth system functioning as a separate area of protection for life cycle impact assessment","authors":"Jan Matuštík,&nbsp;Aleš Paulu","doi":"10.1111/jiec.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Areas of protection (AoPs) guide what is considered to be the goal of environmental protection in life cycle assessment (LCA). Currently, the general agreement is on including three AoPs of human health, ecosystem quality, and natural resources. These AoPs determine the considered impact pathways, the included impact categories, and the design of the models used to quantify the impacts. However, the current LCA framework does not directly reflect the knowledge of Earth system science and the critical role of Earth system functioning. This paper advocates for an additional Earth system AoP to extend the horizon of LCA studies with impacts on the Earth system functioning and stability. It is argued that the proposed Earth system AoP would satisfy selection criteria based on societal consensus, intrinsic value, functional value, as well as cultural value. Including the Earth system as an AoP would allow LCA to consider different impact pathways and thus different dimensions of the current environmental problems. The included impact pathways and the design of impact categories could be based on the knowledge from Earth system science and inspired by the planetary boundaries framework. This is but a first attempt at a broad conceptualization of an Earth system AoP which would require further scientific debate and methodological development to be fully operational.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 3","pages":"634-644"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jiec.70012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256510","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":"Life cycle assessment and role of circular economy: The case of fertilizer industry in India","authors":"Abhinav Katiyar,&nbsp;Vidyadhar V. Gedam","doi":"10.1111/jiec.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Life cycle assessment (LCA) and circular economy (CE) are becoming crucial tools in minimizing the impact of the industrial system. The proposed work explores the LCA of the fertilizer industry (FI) engaged in urea and NPK fertilizer manufacturing in the western and southern parts of India. Further, the 11R-based CE framework and material circularity approach are proposed to minimize the environmental impacts (EIs) of FI for a successful transition toward sustainable development. The study shows significant EIs of FI, such as freshwater ecotoxicity, terrestrial ecotoxicity, freshwater eutrophication, terrestrial eutrophication, marine eutrophication, aquatic acidification, climate change, and ionizing radiation. The carbon footprints during fertilizer manufacturing were 7.092245E+03 kg CO₂ equivalent and 7.87000E+03 kg CO₂ equivalent for each ton of urea and NPK produced. Focusing on each stages of FI, the proposed 11R CE framework provides an action plan for better environmental management during urea and NPK fertilizer manufacturing. The adoption of the developed 11R CE framework and material circularity approach can help minimize the impact associated with FI and can bring considerable environmental benefits. The study further provides in-depth policy and managerial insights for FI decision-makers.</p>","PeriodicalId":16050,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Ecology","volume":"29 3","pages":"813-827"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256489","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}