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

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

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., 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

 

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
 
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

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