Understanding the size and spatial distribution of socio-economic material stocks is important to inform strategies aimed at more sustainable resource management, a circular economy, as well as climate change mitigation.
To learn more about these topics, check out the webinar recording by our researcher Dominik Wiedenhofer (BOKU) for the journal ‘Resources, Conservation & Recycling’. Dominik starts by giving a short overview about progress in mapping material stocks. Afterwards, he introduces recent remote sensing based, big data efforts yielding high-resolution mappings of global buildings and mobility infrastructure, before closing with reflections state-of-the-art and important next steps.