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Fridolin Krausmann

Fridolin Krausmann

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Environmental Sciences
Austria
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
80
Citations
26464
World Ranking
955
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Fridolin Krausmann is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria and specializes in Environmental Science, contributing extensively to research on environmental impact and sustainability. Their work spans several subfields, including Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics addressed in Krausmann's research involve Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Global Energy and Sustainability Research, Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Industrial Ecology, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Frequent collaborators in Krausmann's scientific endeavors include Helmut Haberl, Karl-Heinz Erb, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Sarah Matej, and Simone Gingrich. Their cooperative work has produced numerous publications in several well-regarded academic venues.

Key publication venues for Krausmann's research are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • Journal of Industrial Ecology
  • Environmental Research Letters

Among the recent papers featuring Krausmann are:

  • "Growing stocks of buildings, infrastructures and machinery as key challenge for compliance with climate targets," 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • "Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part I: bibliometric and conceptual mapping," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Spaceship earth's odyssey to a circular economy - a century long perspective," 2020, Resources Conservation and Recycling

Krausmann's research contributions have addressed a variety of environmental challenges, including the relations between economic development and resource use, climate targets' compatibility with growing material stocks, and the effects of land use on biodiversity.

Best Publications

  • Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems

    Helmut Haberl;K. Heinz Erb;Fridolin Krausmann;Veronika Gaube

  • Growth in global materials use, GDP and population during the 20th century

    Fridolin Krausmann;Simone Gingrich;Nina Eisenmenger;Karl-Heinz Erb

  • How Circular is the Global Economy?: An Assessment of Material Flows, Waste Production, and Recycling in the European Union and the World in 2005

    Willi Haas;Fridolin Krausmann;Dominik Wiedenhofer;Markus Heinz

  • Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century

    Fridolin Krausmann;Karl-Heinz Erb;Simone Gingrich;Helmut Haberl

  • A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights

    Helmut Haberl;Dominik Wiedenhofer;Doris Virág;Gerald Kalt

  • Global socioeconomic material stocks rise 23-fold over the 20th century and require half of annual resource use

    Fridolin Krausmann;Dominik Wiedenhofer;Christian Lauk;Willi Haas

  • Methodology and Indicators of Economy‐wide Material Flow Accounting

    Marina Fischer-Kowalski;Fridolin Krausmann;Stefan Giljum;Stephan Lutter

  • Socioeconomic legacy yields an invasion debt

    Franz Essl;Stefan Dullinger;Wolfgang Rabitsch;Philip E. Hulme

  • A socio‐metabolic transition towards sustainability? Challenges for another Great Transformation

    Helmut Haberl;Marina Fischer-Kowalski;Fridolin Krausmann;Joan Martinez-Alier

  • How to calculate and interpret ecological footprints for long periods of time: the case of Austria 1926–1995

    Helmut Haberl;Karl-Heinz Erb;Fridolin Krausmann

  • Progress towards sustainability? What the conceptual framework of material and energy flow accounting (MEFA) can offer

    Helmut Haberl;Marina Fischer-Kowalski;Fridolin Krausmann;Helga Weisz

  • Calculating national and global ecological footprint time series: resolving conceptual challenges

    Mathis Wackernagel;Chad Monfreda;Niels B Schulz;Karl-Heinz Erb

  • Decoupling : natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth

    Marina Fischer-Kowalski;Mark Swilling;Ernst Ulrich Von Weizsacker;Yong Ren

  • Global patterns of socioeconomic biomass flows in the year 2000: A comprehensive assessment of supply, consumption and constraints

    Fridolin Krausmann;Karl-Heinz Erb;Simone Gingrich;Christian Lauk

  • The Global Sociometabolic Transition Past and Present Metabolic Profiles and Their Future Trajectories

    Fridolin Krausmann;Marina Fischer-Kowalski;Heinz Schandl;Nina Eisenmenger

  • Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity: Forty Years of Evidence

    Heinz Schandl;Heinz Schandl;Marina Fischer-Kowalski;James West;Stefan Giljum

  • Global patterns of materials use: A socioeconomic and geophysical analysis

    Julia K. Steinberger;Fridolin Krausmann;Nina Eisenmenger

  • Transitions in European land-management regimes between 1800 and 2010

    Martin Rudbeck Jepsen;Tobias Kuemmerle;Daniel Müller;Daniel Müller;Karlheinz Erb

  • From resource extraction to outflows of wastes and emissions: The socioeconomic metabolism of the global economy, 1900-2015.

    Fridolin Krausmann;Christian Lauk;Willi Haas;Dominik Wiedenhofer

  • The global metabolic transition: Regional patterns and trends of global material flows, 1950-2010.

    Anke Schaffartzik;Andreas Mayer;Simone Gingrich;Nina Eisenmenger

  • Land-use change and socio-economic metabolism in Austria—Part I: driving forces of land-use change: 1950–1995

    Fridolin Krausmann;Helmut Haberl;Niels B Schulz;Karl-Heinz Erb

  • From LTER to LTSER: Conceptualizing the Socioeconomic Dimension of Long-term Socioecological Research

    Helmut Haberl;Verena Winiwarter;Krister Andersson;Robert U. Ayres

Frequent Co-Authors

Helmut Haberl
Helmut Haberl BOKU University
Karl-Heinz Erb
Karl-Heinz Erb BOKU University
Simone Gingrich
Simone Gingrich BOKU University
Heinz Schandl
Heinz Schandl Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Christoph Plutzar
Christoph Plutzar BOKU University
Julia K. Steinberger
Julia K. Steinberger University of Lausanne
Alberte Bondeau
Alberte Bondeau Aix-Marseille University
Stefan Giljum
Stefan Giljum Vienna University of Economics and Business
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Joan Martinez-Alier
Joan Martinez-Alier Autonomous University of Barcelona

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