{"title":"Identifying the social hotspots of German steelmaking and its value chain","authors":"Gijs Krekel , Julian Suer , Marzia Traverso","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Steel production is highly material and energy intensive. As the industry sources large amounts of raw materials globally, the need to assess the sustainability dimensions of the steelmaking process and its value chain is increasing. This paper sets out to investigate the social dimension, by identifying social hotspots tied to the value chain and production of primary steel in Germany. To achieve this, a literature review is conducted, and the Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) methodology is applied in the form of a social hotspot assessment for the production of 1 t of hot rolled steel coil. Import data for the German steel industry are combined with social data from the social hotspot database, to gain an comprehensive overview of social risks and hotspots tied to the value chain and production of steel. The literature review finds the application of S-LCA in the steel industry to be low overall, with great variety in impact subcategories and indicators assessed. The social hotspot assessment shows a high number of social risks tied to the value chain of the German steel industry. These relate primarily to worker health and safety, delocalization and migration, access to immaterial resources, forced labour, and social benefits/social security. In particular, the extractive industries of iron ore and coal are established as social hotspots. Based on the findings of the literature review and the social hotspot assessment, it is recommended that the following impact subcategories be considered in a full scale S-LCA study on steelmaking including the value chain: Worker health and safety, freedom of association and collective bargaining, delocalization and migration, and forced labour. Furthermore, it is recommended to prioritize the collection of primary data on 16 indicators, that are identified as high risk or very high risk across multiple assessed countries and sectors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 222-235"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142324069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
Niloufar Salehi , Saman Amir , Malvina Roci , Sayyed Shoaib-ul-Hasan , Farazee M.A. Asif , Aleš Mihelič , Susanne Sweet , Amir Rashid
{"title":"Towards circular manufacturing systems implementation: An integrated analysis framework for circular supply chains","authors":"Niloufar Salehi , Saman Amir , Malvina Roci , Sayyed Shoaib-ul-Hasan , Farazee M.A. Asif , Aleš Mihelič , Susanne Sweet , Amir Rashid","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The transition to circular manufacturing systems (CMS) is crucial for achieving sustainable growth, addressing the environmental concerns and resource scarcity challenges. Shifting towards CMS requires a systemic approach that integrates value proposition models, product design, and supply chains (SCs). Circular supply chains (CSCs) emerge as a core pillar of CMS, incorporating value delivery, use, recovery, and reuse. CSCs are inherently more complex and dynamic than linear SCs requiring a holistic analysis approach to capture their complex and dynamic attributes. This research proposes an integrated analysis framework combining qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore the complexities and dynamics of CSCs and assess their economic, environmental, and technical performance. Through the lens of two different CMS implementation case studies, one in automotive parts remanufacturing and one in white goods manufacturing, this research illustrates the framework's applicability. In the automotive case, centralizing core management activities was found to improve economic performance by 50-54 %. However, the introduction of regional logistics hubs, while economically efficient, led to a 20 % increase in CO<sub>2</sub>-equivalent emissions. On the other hand, the white goods case study highlighted the trade-offs in centralizing end-of-life recovery facilities, where financial savings of up to 60 % were offset by increased transportation costs and increased CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. The analysis of CSCs in these two distinct manufacturing sectors underscores the relevance and flexibility of the proposed framework, providing decision-makers with a tool to examine how different CSCs configurations and strategies impact overall performance. This guidance is crucial for developing optimal CSCs design and implementation strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 169-198"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142324070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
Dominik Maierhofer , Vincent van Karsbergen , Tajda Potrč Obrecht , Marcella Ruschi Mendes Saade , Simone Gingrich , Wolfgang Streicher , Karl-Heinz Erb , Alexander Passer
{"title":"Linking forest carbon opportunity costs and greenhouse gas emission substitution effects of wooden buildings: The climate optimum concept","authors":"Dominik Maierhofer , Vincent van Karsbergen , Tajda Potrč Obrecht , Marcella Ruschi Mendes Saade , Simone Gingrich , Wolfgang Streicher , Karl-Heinz Erb , Alexander Passer","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.08.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.08.021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forests play a crucial role in achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emission targets in the coming decades, as they can act as natural carbon sinks by removing carbon dioxide from the Earth's atmosphere. The use of wood as a building material leads to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout its life cycle compared to other building materials and is therefore considered a valid climate change mitigation strategy. However, the impact of wood harvesting on the potential carbon storage in forests has largely been ignored. In this study, we investigated whether the use of wood as a building material is beneficial for climate change mitigation when considering carbon opportunity costs, which represent the amount of carbon prevented from accumulating in forests due to wood extraction. We introduce the climate optimum concept, which links both GHG emission substitution and associated carbon opportunity cost of wooden buildings. Application of the concept to a case study building shows that the GHG substitution benefits of wooden buildings for climate change mitigation are overshadowed by carbon opportunity costs in forests. In our analysis, no wooden scenario achieves sufficient life cycle embodied GHG emission substitution in order to compensate for the unrealized carbon storage potential in the forest system due to harvest. Wood-based GHG mitigation strategies in the building sector and beyond need to consider this unrealized carbon storage potential of forests expressed via carbon opportunity costs, in order to obtain a more comprehensive picture of the climate impact of forests and wood-based products.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 612-627"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142531152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
Zhengxuan Wu , Daniel Maga , Venkat Aryan , Andreas Reimann , Tobias Safarpour , Stefan Schillberg
{"title":"A life cycle assessment of protein production from wheatgrass: Optimization potential of a novel vertical farming system","authors":"Zhengxuan Wu , Daniel Maga , Venkat Aryan , Andreas Reimann , Tobias Safarpour , Stefan Schillberg","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.08.031","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.08.031","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The global protein demand is expected to keep increasing due to a growing global population, combined with changing social demography and other factors. OrbiPlant®, a novel vertical farming technology developed in Germany, is used to cultivate wheatgrass (<em>Triticum aestivum</em>) as one possible solution for realizing a sustainable protein supply to meet this challenge. The objective of this study was to investigate the environmental impacts of wheatgrass protein concentrate powder produced in the novel vertical farming system and compare it with traditional protein sources (cheese and soy protein). To achieve this, a ‘cradle-to-gate’ life cycle assessment (LCA) was performed using OpenLCA software and Environment Footprint 3.1 method. The results show that wheatgrass protein from vertical farming has lower environmental impacts than cheese protein in terms of terrestrial eutrophication, and land use, similar impacts on freshwater ecotoxicity and particulate matter, but higher impacts in other categories. Due to the high environmental impact of the current Germany electricity mix, the overall environmental performance of wheatgrass protein remains non-competitive to traditional protein sources. By optimizing production, the environmental impact can be reduced to just 57.8 % of the cheese protein. This finding highlights the potential of the investigated wheatgrass protein from vertical farming system to reduce environmental impacts when substituting animal-based protein. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of utilizing renewable energy sources.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 105-117"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352550924002574/pdfft?md5=8b71d37cf826f9058c8c9308097a5ddf&pid=1-s2.0-S2352550924002574-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142272938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
Alejandro Gallego-Schmid , Camila López-Eccher , Edmundo Muñoz , Rodrigo Salvador , Natalia A. Cano-Londoño , Murillo Vetroni Barros , Daniel Choconta Bernal , Joan Manuel F. Mendoza , Ana Nadal , Ana Belén Guerrero
{"title":"Circular economy in Latin America and the Caribbean: Drivers, opportunities, barriers and strategies","authors":"Alejandro Gallego-Schmid , Camila López-Eccher , Edmundo Muñoz , Rodrigo Salvador , Natalia A. Cano-Londoño , Murillo Vetroni Barros , Daniel Choconta Bernal , Joan Manuel F. Mendoza , Ana Nadal , Ana Belén Guerrero","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study assesses for the first time the drivers, opportunities, barriers, and strategies for the transition to a circular economy in Latin America and the Caribbean through a comprehensive systematic review of the current academic literature. A total of 247 articles have been analysed through the lens of the PESTLE framework (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental), coupled with the consideration of the most recognised circular economy strategies (narrowing, slowing, closing, and regenerating) and solutions (the ten R's strategies: refuse, rethink, reduce, reuse, repair, refurbish, remanufacture, repurpose, recycle, and recover). Key drivers identified in the literature include governmental policy shifts in the region towards circular and sustainable practices. These practices have focused on leveraging the abundance and diversity of natural resources and the region's climatic conditions that favour the development of bio-industries, renewable energies, and innovative sustainable materials, reflecting a clear adaptation of circular economy strategies to the specific needs and resources of Latin America and the Caribbean. Similarly, the technological and regulatory progress in pollution prevention and control, although still slow, has driven the implementation of circular economy strategies, making the role of new circular technologies fundamental for the region's sustainability. Barriers mentioned in the articles include limited governmental incentives, inadequate infrastructure for waste management, and the high costs associated with transitioning to circular economy practices, compounded by a lack of general public awareness and engagement. Regarding the circular economy strategies, the reviewed studies predominantly focus on recycling (“closing”) due to the immediate waste management needs of the region, with less emphasis on resource efficiency (“narrowing” and “slowing”) and minimal adoption of regenerative practices due to higher initial investment demands. Recycling and, to a lesser extent, recovery dominate the ten R's strategies discussed in the literature, indicating still a focus on end-of-life approaches in the region, while strategies like reduce, reuse, and repurpose are gaining representation; however, research on repair, refuse, remanufacture, and refurbishment should be the focus of future investigations. Finally, this article provides guidelines and recommendations for future research to facilitate the deployment and management of a sustainable circular economy in the region.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 118-136"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235255092400263X/pdfft?md5=90bfceb0eccaef612d66983be7b9c3e2&pid=1-s2.0-S235255092400263X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
Marc van den Berg , Daan Schraven , Catherine De Wolf , Hans Voordijk
{"title":"Materializing responsible futures: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of circular design experiences in construction","authors":"Marc van den Berg , Daan Schraven , Catherine De Wolf , Hans Voordijk","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Reimagining design as a transformative practice for realizing a circular built environment is both urgent and important. Many of today's resource problems can be traced back to the way constructions are being designed. The adoption of circular design practices may alleviate these problems. Most previous research has either mapped the boundaries of contemporary circular design practices or pushed those boundaries with new interventions. The lived experiences of designers are, however, often overlooked. Little remains known about what it is like to be engaged in and how to ‘live through’ circular design. This study therefore seeks to understand the practice from the perspective of designers themselves. Through applying an interpretative phenomenological analysis to unstructured interview data collected from ten frontrunning Dutch designers, it explores both the what and how of circular design. Four emergent themes were found that illuminate the experience itself. Circular design is, accordingly, interpreted as a practice which: proclaims responsibility towards the Earth, materializes future-oriented solutions, deals with a multi-headed monster, and involves orchestrating a design ecosystem. These themes are illustrated with narrative accounts of designers' actual experiences. The rich, in-depth insights offer ample learning opportunities to better understand and facilitate unfolding circularity transitions. Circular design is, as such, theorized as a vital practice that can shape the built environment through materializing responsible futures.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 92-104"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352550924002628/pdfft?md5=ba900300c04ee80d109c8e8869540923&pid=1-s2.0-S2352550924002628-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142272870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Social risk assessment of the transition from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles: Material supply chains in China, Japan, and South Korea","authors":"Xintong Chen , Tingting Jiang , Qiang Jin","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In order to reduce carbon emissions, the production of internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) is being transitioned to the production of electric vehicles (EVs). However, the social unsustainability of this process needs further testing. This study explored the social risk characteristics of the transition from ICEVs to EVs based on the Social Hotspots Database (SHDB), combining with the Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) and the Marginal Analysis Method (MAM). Here, we revealed the differences in social risks in the material supply chains between China, Japan, and South Korea, which may create incentives for 100 % supply concentration in a hypothetical game. In terms of social risk, common substitution trends in the iron‑aluminum sector and synergy patterns in the copper-rubber sector were observed in the three countries. As a key factor influencing social risks, cost factor may change, and cost changes due to transition were mainly influenced by production adjustments and sourcing differences, reflecting differences in production capacity trends. This study makes it possible to consider ICEVs and EVs as two endpoints for transition activity in a SLCA exercise and provides valuable insights focusing on transition, aiding in material selection for future product design and underscoring the importance of proactive consideration of social sustainability indices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 248-260"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142357236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Exploring sustainable food system transformation options in China: An integrated environmental-economic modelling approach based on the applied general equilibrium framework","authors":"Weitong Long , Xueqin Zhu , Hans-Peter Weikard , Oene Oenema , Yong Hou","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Our food system drives global environmental change, and differences in environmental concerns of consumers may cause negative environmental ‘spillover effects’ in less concerned countries. While food system transformation is increasingly recognised as crucial for mitigating such negative environmental spillovers, possible unintended negative environmental consequences in other regions and/or economic sectors have received less attention. Using an integrated environmental-economic modelling framework and scenario analyses, we explored options for more sustainable food systems and to mitigate the negative environmental spillovers from trading partners to China. We found that doubling novel soy-based food (soy-based meat) consumption while reducing pork consumption in China decreased Chinese economy-wide emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) by 1 % and acidification pollutants by 3 %. However, it increased Chinese economy-wide emissions of eutrophication pollutants by 2 %, driven by the increased production of soy-based food and other food with relatively high emission intensities of eutrophication pollutants. Combining a dietary shift with the adoption of cleaner cereals production technology for half of the current resources used for cereals production decreased Chinese economy-wide emissions of GHGs by 1 %, acidification pollutants by 7 %, and eutrophication pollutants by 3 %, but required capital reallocation from other sectors. Implementing a unilateral environmental policy in China (i.e., implementing incentive-based emission permits to reduce emissions of all pollutants by 3 % annually) increased economy-wide emissions of GHGs in trading partners by 2 %. This ‘carbon leakage’ emerges due to the shift of production of products with relatively high emission intensities (i.e., nitrogen fertiliser and livestock) from China to its trading partners through international trade. We demonstrate that indirect environmental impacts are crucial to consider when analysing the economy-wide consequences of food system transformations, as these indirect impacts may inadvertently affect other regions and/or economic sectors that were not initially targeted. Our study offers policymakers insights into designing effective policies for more sustainable food systems and sheds light on trade-offs among competing environmental and economic goals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 42-54"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142232739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Circular economy: Extending end-of-life strategies","authors":"Waqas Ahmed , Vanajah Siva , Jenny Bäckstrand , Niklas Sarius , Hans-Åke Sundberg","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The transition from linear economy to circular economy (CE) has gained mainstream status in recent times, not only at product and process levels, but also at component level. In order to adopt the CE as common practice, there is a need to reimagine the product end-of-life (EoL) phase to include assessment of individual component health status. Implementation of EoL strategies on products designed based on wear and tear, robustness, and safety concerns is, however, complex. The purpose of this study is to explore the potential of designing for CE by applying a visual health-based analysis (VHA) at the component level at the EoL stage. The application of this diagnostic tool is exemplified in a case at a large Swedish outdoor power product manufacturer by analyzing components for reuse, remanufacture, refurbishment, recycling, and recovery strategies. The VHA results in the calculation of a CE potential at the component-product level based on individual component's cost, complexity, health, and diagnostic approach. This study presents a diagnostic tool for practitioners to understand circularity at the component-level in the effort to identify EoL strategies. Furthermore, in supporting the CE principle of maximizing resource recovery, the study potentially contributes to the EU's CE action plan and the UN-SDGs 8, 9, 12, and 13.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 67-78"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352550924002604/pdfft?md5=7530106f3f4ac5e0fab5df354d4a5a72&pid=1-s2.0-S2352550924002604-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142242666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
Kevin Joseph Dillman , Jukka Heinonen , Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir
{"title":"Safe and just housing for all–Towards establishing a sustainable consumption corridor for housing","authors":"Kevin Joseph Dillman , Jukka Heinonen , Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.09.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper introduces a sustainable consumption corridor (SCC) framework designed to define a ‘safe’ and ‘just’ space for housing provisioning, integrating social equity with ecological sustainability in the housing sector. It proposes a comprehensive set of ecological ceilings and social foundations, providing actionable threshold indicators for measuring and guiding sustainable housing practices. Through the SCC, this work addresses the pressing socio-ecological challenges the housing sector faces, especially the need to balance housing expansion with environmental limits. In doing so, this work provides a platform to discuss the consumption-based versus absolute limits for social and ecological thresholds, the need to integrate social and environmental thresholds, and the need to model the provisioning system dynamics which in turn influence the social and environmental performance of housing provisioning systems. This provisioning includes both the physical and political economic factors which influence these outcomes. The study sets the stage for future empirical research and the refinement of indicators that can be adapted across different contexts to ensure relevance and applicability. The ultimate aim promote policies to reconfigure housing provisioning systems to meet human needs within the planetary boundaries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"51 ","pages":"Pages 79-91"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142242667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}