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Stefan Bringezu

Stefan Bringezu

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
46
Citations
10934
World Ranking
3565
National Ranking
94

Overview

Stefan Bringezu is affiliated with the University of Kassel in Germany and specializes in Environmental Science and Engineering. Their work spans several subfields, including Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Building and Construction, Mechanical Engineering, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research focuses on topics such as Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies, Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance, Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, and Carbon Dioxide Utilization in Catalysis.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Stefan Bringezu include:

  • Safe and just Earth system boundaries, 2023, Nature
  • The carbon footprint of the carbon feedstock CO2, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Identifying a Safe and Just Corridor for People and the Planet, 2021, Earth's Future
  • A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health-Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations, 2024, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Extended life cycle assessment reveals the spatially-explicit water scarcity footprint of a lithium-ion battery storage, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment

Stefan Bringezu frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Clemens Mostert
  • Husam Sameer
  • Simon Kaiser
  • Anna Schomberg
  • Vincent Egenolf

Their most common publication venues include:

  • Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Sustainability
  • Energies
  • Green Chemistry

Among their book publications, Stefan Bringezu has contributed to "Sustainable Resource Management" published by Elsevier BV in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Safe and just Earth system boundaries

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  • Resource flows : the material basis of industrial economies

    Albert Adriaanse;Stefan Bringezu;Allen Hammond;Yuichi Moriguchi

  • The Weight of Nations : Material Outflows from Industrial Economies

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

  • Methodology and Indicators of Economy‐wide Material Flow Accounting

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

  • A Review of the Environmental Impacts of Biobased Materials

    Martin Weiss;Juliane Haufe;Michael Carus;Miguel Brandão

  • International comparison of resource use and its relation to economic growth: The development of total material requirement, direct material inputs and hidden flows and the structure of TMR

    Stefan Bringezu;Helmut Schütz;Sören Steger;Jan Baudisch

  • Rationale for and Interpretation of Economy‐Wide Materials Flow Analysis and Derived Indicators

    Stefan Bringezu;Helmut Schütz;Stephan Moll

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

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

  • Towards Sustainable Production and Use of Resources: Assessing Biofuels

    Stefan Bringezu;Helmut Schutz;Meghan O'Brien;Lea Kauppi

  • Sustainable resource management : global trends, visions and policies

    Stefan Bringezu;Raimund Bleischwitz

  • Material flow analysis

    Stefan Bringezu;Yuichi Moriguchi

  • Identifying a Safe and Just Corridor for People and the Planet

    Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Joyeeta Gupta;Joyeeta Gupta;Timothy M. Lenton;Dahe Qin;Dahe Qin

  • Possible target corridor for sustainable use of global material resources

    Stefan Bringezu

  • The carbon footprint of the carbon feedstock CO2

    Leonard Jan Müller;Arne Kätelhön;Stefan Bringezu;Sean McCoy

  • Total material requirement of the European Union

    Stefan Bringezu;Helmut Schütz

  • The physical dimension of international trade: Part 1: Direct global flows between 1962 and 2005

    Monika Dittrich;Stefan Bringezu

  • Global Resources Outlook: 2019

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

  • Global direct pressures on biodiversity by large-scale metal mining: Spatial distribution and implications for conservation.

    Diego Ignacio Murguia;Diego Ignacio Murguia;Stefan Bringezu;Stefan Bringezu;Rüdiger Schaldach

  • Beyond biofuels: assessing global land use for domestic consumption of biomass: a conceptual and empirical contribution to sustainable management of global resources.

    Stefan Bringezu;Meghan O’Brien;Helmut Schütz

  • Policy review on decoupling : development of indicators to assess decoupling of economic development and environmental pressure in the EU-25 and AC-3 countries

    E. van der Voet;L. van Oers;S. Moll;H. Schütz

  • Life Cycle Assessment of Carbon Dioxide–Based Production of Methane and Methanol and Derived Polymers

    Wieland Hoppe;Nils Thonemann;Stefan Bringezu;Stefan Bringezu

  • Platinum Group Metal Flows of Europe, Part 1: Global Supply, Use in Industry, and Shifting of Environmental Impacts

    Mathieu Saurat;Stefan Bringezu

  • Assessing global land use : balancing consumption with sustainable supply

    Stefan Bringezu;Helmut Schütz;Walter Pengue;Meghan O'Brien

Frequent Co-Authors

Martina Flörke
Martina Flörke Ruhr University Bochum
Ester van der Voet
Ester van der Voet Leiden University
Roy Haines-Young
Roy Haines-Young University of Nottingham
P. Ciais
P. Ciais French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Anu Ramaswami
Anu Ramaswami Princeton University
Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University
Marion Schrumpf
Marion Schrumpf Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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