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Overview

Heinz Schandl is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research predominantly falls within the field of Environmental Science, supported by a substantial focus on several subfields including Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Strategy and Management, Global and Planetary Change, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main themes of Schandl's work address various aspects of sustainability and environmental management. Key topics include:

  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Schandl has contributed to multiple recent papers in notable academic journals. Selected works include:

  • "Implementing the material footprint to measure progress towards Sustainable Development Goals 8 and 12" (2021) published in Nature Sustainability
  • "Plastic waste recycling: existing Indian scenario and future opportunities" (2022) published in International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
  • "Measuring progress of China's circular economy" (2020) published in Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • "Plastic Waste Management in India: Challenges, Opportunities, and Roadmap for Circular Economy" (2022) published in Sustainability
  • "Shared socio-economic pathways and their implications for global materials use" (2020) published in Resources Conservation and Recycling

Schandl frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Heming Wang
  • Alessio Miatto
  • Yingying Lu
  • Raymundo Marcos-Martinez
  • Andrea Walton

Their publications are often featured in specific journals repeatedly, highlighting sustained involvement in certain venues:

  • Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • Journal of Industrial Ecology
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Sustainability

Best Publications

  • The material footprint of nations.

    Thomas O. Wiedmann;Thomas O. Wiedmann;Thomas O. Wiedmann;Heinz Schandl;Manfred Lenzen;Daniel Moran

  • 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

  • The Weight of Nations : Material Outflows from Industrial Economies

    Emily Matthews;Christof Amann;Stefan Bringezu;Marina Fischer-Kowalski

  • Decoupling global environmental pressure and economic growth: scenarios for energy use, materials use and carbon emissions

    Heinz Schandl;Heinz Schandl;Steve Hatfield-Dodds;Thomas Wiedmann;Thomas Wiedmann;Arne Geschke

  • Methodology and Indicators of Economy‐wide Material Flow Accounting

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

  • 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

  • Implementing the material footprint to measure progress towards Sustainable Development Goals 8 and 12

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  • Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want

    B. Oberle;S. Bringezu;S. Hatfield-Dodds;S. Hellweg

  • Socio-ecological regime transitions in Austria and the United Kingdom

    Fridolin Krausmann;Heinz Schandl;Rolf Peter Sieferle

  • Resource use and resource efficiency in the Asia-Pacific region

    Heinz Schandl;Jim West

  • Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation

    Robert Webb;Xuemei Bai;Xuemei Bai;Mark Stafford Smith;Robert Costanza

  • Development and dematerialization: an international study.

    Julia K. Steinberger;Julia K. Steinberger;Fridolin Krausmann;Michael Getzner;Heinz Schandl

  • Australia is ‘free to choose’ economic growth and falling environmental pressures

    Steve Hatfield-Dodds;Heinz Schandl;Philip D. Adams;Timothy M. Baynes

  • Changes in the United Kingdom's natural relations in terms of society's metabolism and land-use from 1850 to the present day

    Heinz Schandl;Niels Schulz

  • Accounting for the Material Stock of Nations

    Tomer Fishman;Heinz Schandl;Hiroki Tanikawa;Paul A Walker

  • Material Flow Accounting: Measuring Global Material Use for Sustainable Development

    Fridolin Krausmann;Heinz Schandl;Nina Eisenmenger;Stefan Giljum

  • Energy use and economic development: A comparative analysis of useful work supply in Austria, Japan, the United Kingdom and the US during 100 years of economic growth

    Benjamin Warr;Robert Ayres;Nina Eisenmenger;Fridolin Krausmann

  • Global Resources Outlook: 2019

    Bruno Oberle;Stefan Bringezu;Steve Hatfield-Dodds;Stefanie Hellweg

  • Das Ende der Fläche : zum gesellschaftlichen Stoffwechsel der Industrialisierung

    Rolf Peter Sieferle;Fridolin Krausmann;Heinz Schandl;Verena Winiwarter

  • The biophysical perspective of a middle income economy: Material flows in Mexico

    Ana Citlalic Gonzalez-Martinez;Heinz Schandl

Frequent Co-Authors

Fridolin Krausmann
Fridolin Krausmann BOKU University
Manfred Lenzen
Manfred Lenzen University of Sydney
Thomas Wiedmann
Thomas Wiedmann University of New South Wales
Stefan Giljum
Stefan Giljum Vienna University of Economics and Business
Stefan Bringezu
Stefan Bringezu University of Kassel
Michael Obersteiner
Michael Obersteiner University of Oxford
Helmut Haberl
Helmut Haberl BOKU University
Ester van der Voet
Ester van der Voet Leiden University
Clive L. Spash
Clive L. Spash Vienna University of Economics and Business

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