Metabolism of the Anthroposphere

Baccini, Peter; Brunner, Paul H.

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-02693-9

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“…Dynamic material flow analysis (MFA) has become a standard tool for forecasting material flows, assessing recycling schemes and related environmental impacts (e.g. Baccini and Brunner, 2012;Daigo et al, 2009;Hatayama et al, 2010;Muller, 2006).…”

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Towards a dynamic assessment of raw materials criticality: Linking agent-based demand — With material flow supply modelling approaches

Knoeri

Wäger

Stamp

et al. 2013

Science of The Total Environment

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Abstract:Emerging technologies such as information and communication-, photovoltaic-or battery technologies are expected to increase significantly the demand for scarce metals in the near future. The recently developed methods to evaluate the criticality of mineral raw materials typically provide a 'snapshot' of the criticality of a certain material at one point in time by using static indicators both for supply risk and for the impacts of supply restrictions. While allowing for insights into the mechanisms behind the criticality of raw materials, these methods cannot account for dynamic changes in products and/or activities over time. In this paper we propose a conceptual framework intended to overcome these limitations by including the dynamic interactions between different possible demand and supply configurations. The framework integrates an agent-based behaviour model, where demand emerges from individual agent decisions and interaction, into a dynamic material flow model, representing the materials' stocks and flows. Within the framework, the environmental implications of substitution decisions are evaluated by applying life-cycle assessment methodology. The approach makes a first step towards a dynamic criticality assessment and will enhance the understanding of industrial substitution decisions and environmental implications related to critical metals. We discuss the potential and limitation of such an approach in contrast to state-of-the-art methods and how it might lead to criticality assessments tailored to the specific circumstances of single industrial sectors or individual companies.

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Section: Agent-based Model and Dynamic Materials Flow Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a dynamic assessment of raw materials criticality: Linking agent-based demand — With material flow supply modelling approaches

Knoeri

Wäger

Stamp

et al. 2013

Science of The Total Environment

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“…The concept of industrial metabolism was launched by Ayres in 1988 (Ayres andSimonis, 1994;Baccini and Brunner, 1991). He views the ''metabolism of industry'' as ''the whole integrated collection of physical processes that convert raw materials and energy, plus labor, into finished products and wastes.…”

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Structural complexity analysis for industrial ecosystems: A case study on LuBei industrial ecosystem in China

Chen

Wang

Yang

et al. 2010

Ecological Complexity

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“…Despite notable exceptions like Migge, it is not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, with the environmental movement and the first oil crisis, that system ecology, and the resulting general system theory, become the basis for more complex models of the interface between nature and economy (Odum, 1983). Industrial ecology and its application to urban metabolism (Wolman, 1965;Duvigneaud and Denaeyer-De Smet, 1977;Baccini and Brunner, 1991) are followed by the establishment of a new field of research into urban ecology.…”

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Conceptualizing the built environment as a social–ecological system

Moffatt¹,

Kohler

2008

Building Research & Information

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Formulating a unified theory of the built environment may require that the built environment be understood as a complex social-ecological system, where multiple-related metabolisms interact at different scales. From this broad systems perspective, the dividing line between what is considered as nature and what is considered as built environment becomes a cultural attribute that changes with the historical context. Over the past four centuries, notions of environmental accounting and material metabolism have expanded from year-to-year economic and biological exchanges to energy, material, financial, and information flows extended through time and space. At present, the necessary extension of system limits in time and space is best achieved by combining a number of methods, including flow-based models and resource-conservation-based models, and top-down and bottom-up modelling approaches. Artefacts, flows, and actors can be linked over time by means of a common framework for describing the built environment, and by life cycle-oriented product modelling techniques. Despite such advances, existing theory seems incapable of fully integrating spatial and physical relationships, and is especially challenged when dealing with concepts of time. Ecological models provide a useful basis for new timing tools that integrate different time scales, past and future, and that allow for an assessment of adaptive capacity and other aspects of system resiliency. These models can be used to understand better the impact of different managerial and social policies at both the macro-and the micro-level. The management of the long-term evolution of this social-ecological system can only be assured through appropriating ecological concepts of time, and by integrating the history of nature with the history of human culture.Keywords: built environment, conceptual frameworks, ecosphere, ecosystem, metabolism, sustainability, temporal perspectives, theory-building, time, urban systemsFormuler une théorie unifiée du milieu bâ ti peut nécessiter que ce milieu soit compris comme un système socio-écologique complexe où des métabolismes multiples interagissent à différentes échelles. À partir de cette vaste perspective de systèmes, la ligne de partage entre ce qui est considéré comme la nature et ce qui est considéré comme le milieu bâ ti devient un attribut culturel qui change avec le contexte historique. l'impact des différentes politiques de gestion et politiques sociales aux niveaux macro et micro économiques. La gestion de l'évolution dans le long terme de ce système socio-écologique ne peut être assurée que par l'appropriation de concepts écologiques de temps et par l'intégration de l'histoire de la nature dans celle de la culture humaine.

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Metabolism of the Anthroposphere

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Towards a dynamic assessment of raw materials criticality: Linking agent-based demand — With material flow supply modelling approaches

Towards a dynamic assessment of raw materials criticality: Linking agent-based demand — With material flow supply modelling approaches

Structural complexity analysis for industrial ecosystems: A case study on LuBei industrial ecosystem in China

Conceptualizing the built environment as a social–ecological system

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