Publications

The CircEUlar project regularly communicates and disseminates its innovative results through continuous publications in scientific journals. This knowledge base serves as a public resource for direct access to these articles.

Articles

Berrill, P., Nachtigall, F., Javaid, A., Milojevic-Dupont, N., Wagner, F., & Creutzig, F. (2024). Comparing urban form influences on travel distance, car ownership, and mode choice. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 128, 104087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2024.104087

Burgess, M., & Wilson, C. (2023). Bulk material manufacture: The potential impact of digitalisation and provenance systems on materials recirculation. [Working Paper No. 1]. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8054783

Cimpan, C., Bjelle, E.L., Budzinski, M., Wood, R., & Strømman, A.H. (2023). Effects of Circularity Interventions in the European Plastic Packaging Sector. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(27), 9984-9995. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c08202

Creutzig, F., Becker, S., Berrill, P., Bongs, C., Bussler, A., Cave, B., Constantino, S. M., Grant, M., Heeren, N., Heinen, E., Hintz, M. J., Ingen-Housz, T., Johnson, E., Kolleck, N., Liotta, C., Lorek, S., Mattioli, G., Niamir, L., McPhearson, T., Milojevic-Dupont, N., Nachtigall, F., … & Zekar, A. (2024). Towards a public policy of cities and human settlements in the 21st century. npj Urban Sustain, 4(29). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-024-00168-7 

Desing, H., Widmer, R., Bardi, U., Beylot, A., Billy, R. G., Gasser, M., Gauch, M., Monfort, D., Müller, D. B., Raugei, M., Remmen, K., Schenker, V., Schlesier, H., Valdivia, S., & Wäger, P. (2024). Mobilizing materials to enable a fast energy transition: A conceptual framework. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 200, 107314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2023.107314

Fishman, T., Mastrucci, A., Peled, Y., Saxe, S., & van Ruijven, B. (2024). RASMI: Global ranges of building material intensities differentiated by region, structure, and function. Scientific Data, 11(418). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03190-7

Haas, W., Virág, D., Wiedenhofer, D., & von Blottnitz, H. (2023). How circular is an extractive economy? South Africa’s export orientation results in low circularity and insufficient societal stocks for service-provisioning. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 199, 107290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2023.107290

Joshi, S., Zakeri, B., Mittal, S., Mastrucci, A., Holloway, P., Krey, V., Shukla, P. R., O’Gallachoir, B., & Glynn, J. (2024). Global high-resolution growth projections dataset for rooftop area consistent with the shared socioeconomic pathways, 2020–2050. Scientific Data, 11(563). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03378-x

Leipold, S., Petit‐Boix, A., Luo, A., Helander, H., Simoens, M., Ashton, W. S., Babbitt, C. W., Bala, A., Bening, C. R., Birkved, M., Blomsma, F., Boks, C., Boldrin, A., Deutz, P., Domenech, T., Ferronato, N., Gallego‐Schmid, A., Giurco, D., Hobson, K., … Xue, B. (2023). Lessons, narratives, and research directions for a sustainable circular economy. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 27(1), 6–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13346

Liotta, C., Viguié, V., & Creutzig, F. (2023). Environmental and welfare gains via urban transport policy portfolios across 120 cities. Nature Sustainability, 6(9), 1067 – 1076. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01138-0

Mastrucci, A., Guo, F., Zhong, X., Maczek, F., & van Ruijven, B. (2024). Circular strategies for building sector decarbonization in China: A scenario analysis. Journal of Industrial Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13523

Mastrucci, A., Niamir, L., Boza-Kiss, B., Bento, N., Wiedenhofer, D., Streeck, J., … & van Ruijven, B. (2023). Modeling Low Energy Demand Futures for Buildings: Current State and Research Needs. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 48, 761-792. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-112321-102921

Meng, J., Wang, R., Wood, R., Rasul, K., Zhu, B. & Hertwich, E. (2023). Material and Carbon Footprints of Machinery Capital. Environmental Science and Technology, 57(50), 21124–21135. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c06180

Milojevic-Dupont, N., Wagner, F., Nachtigall, F., Hu, J., Brüser, G. B., Zumwald, M., Biljecki, F., Heeren, N., Kaack, L. H., Pichler, P.-P., & Creutzig, F. (2023). EUBUCCO v0.1: European building stock characteristics in a common and open database for 200+ million individual buildings. Scientific Data, 10(147). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02040-2

Morseletto, P., & Haas, W. (2023). A call for high-quality data to foster a decisive transformation towards a circular economy. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 197, 107092. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2023.107092

Nachtigall, F., Wagner, F., Berrill, P., & Creutzig, F. (2023). The built environment and induced transport CO2 emissions: A double machine learning approach to account for residential self-selection. arXiv. 2312.06616 [cs.lg]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2312.06616

Nachtigall, F., Wagner, F., Milojevic-Dupont, N., & Creutzig, F. (2023). Predicting building age from urban form at large scale. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 105, 102010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2023.102010

Streeck, J., Pauliuk, S., Wieland, H., & Wiedenhofer, D. (2023). A review of methods to trace material flows into final products in dynamic material flow analysis: From industry shipments in physical units to monetary input–output tables, Part 1. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 27(2), 436–456. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13380

Streeck, J., Wieland, H., Pauliuk, S., Plank, B., Nakajima, K., & Wiedenhofer, D. (2023). A review of methods to trace material flows into final products in dynamic material flow analysis: Comparative application of six methods to the United States and EXIOBASE3 regions, Part 2. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 27(2), 457–475. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13379

Ünlü, G., Maczek, F., Min, J., Frank, S., Glatter, F., Natsuo Kishimoto, P., Streeck, J., Eisenmenger, N., Krey, V., & Wiedenhofer, D. (2024). MESSAGEix-Materials v1.0.0: Representation of Material Flows and Stocks in an Integrated Assessment Model. EGUsphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-3035

Wagner, F., Milojevic-Dupont, N., Franken, L., Zekar, A., Thies, B., Koch, N., & Creutzig, F. (2022). Using explainable machine learning to understand how urban form shapes sustainable mobility. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 111, 103442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2022.103442

Wang, Z., Wiedenhofer, D., Stephan, A., Perrotti, D., Van den bergh, W., & Cao, Z. (2023). High-Resolution Mapping of Material Stocks in Belgian Road Infrastructure: Material Efficiency Patterns, Material Recycling Potentials, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Opportunities. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(34), 12674-12688. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c08703

Wiedenhofer, D., Streeck, J., Wieland, H., Grammer, B., Baumgart, A., Plank, B., Helbig, C., Pauliuk, S., Haberl, H., & Krausmann, F. (2024). From Extraction to End-uses and Waste Management: Modelling Economy-wide Material Cycles and Stock Dynamics Around the World. Journal of Industrial Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13575 

Wiedenhofer, D., Streeck, J., Wiese, F., Verdolini, E., Mastrucci, A., … & Pauliuk, S. (2024). Industry Transformations for High Service Provisioning with Lower Energy and Material Demand: A Review of Models and Scenarios. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 49, 249-279. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-110822-044428

 

Datasets

Haas, W., Virág, D., Wiedenhofer, D., & von Blottnitz, H. (2023). SI2: How circular is an extractive economy? South Africa’s export orientation results in low circularity and insufficient societal stocks for service-provisioning (2.0) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8169327
 
Joshi, S., Zakeri, B., Mittal, S., Mastrucci, A., Holloway, P., Krey, V., Shukla, P. R., O’Gallachoir, B., & Glynn, J. (2024). Global high-resolution growth projections dataset for rooftop area consistent with the shared socioeconomic pathways, 2020–2050 [Data set]. Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/records/11085013
 
Milojevic-Dupont, N., Wagner, F., Hu, J., Zumwald, M., Nachtigall, F., Biljecki, F., Heeren, N., Kaack, L., Pichler, P.-P., & Creutzig, F. (2022). EUBUCCO (v0.1) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7225259
 
Wiedenhofer, D., Streeck, J., Wieland, H., Grammer, B., Baumgart, A., & Plank, B. (2024). From Extraction to End-uses and Waste Management: Modelling Economy-wide Material Cycles and Stock Dynamics Around the World. [Data set]. https://zenodo.org/records/12794253

Software

Ünlü, G., Maczek, F., Min, J., Frank, S., Glatter, F., Natsuo Kishimoto, P., Streeck, J., Eisenmenger, N., Krey, V., & Wiedenhofer, D. (2023). MESSAGEix-Materials. https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10370767
 
Streeck, J., Wieland, H., Pauliuk, S., Plank, B., Nakajima, K., & Wiedenhofer, D. (2022). Determining end-use shares for tracing material flows into final products in dynamic material flow analysis—Comparative application of six methods to the USA and EXIOBASE3 regions (Version 1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7266375