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  • Billions still lack decent living standards (DLS), yet it is not known how much growth in material stocks for buildings, infrastructure and machinery will be required to meet these needs. This study estimates that increasing the material stocks by 12% would suffice to achieve DLS for all, achievable by 2030.

    • Jan Streeck
    • Johan Andrés Veléz-Henao
    • Dominik Wiedenhofer
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 8, P: 1567-1581

  • Extent and spatial patterns of settlements and infrastructures strongly affect resource demand of national economies worldwide. Their influence on final energy and CO2 emissions is almost as large as that of gross domestic product (GDP).

    • Helmut Haberl
    • Markus Löw
    • Juan Antonio Duro
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-10

  • Land use is a major driver of biodiversity loss, but disentangling the contribution of its various components is challenging. Here, the authors partition the role of land use type and intensity in explaining global patterns of impending species losses for terrestrial vertebrates.

    • Philipp Semenchuk
    • Christoph Plutzar
    • Stefan Dullinger
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 13, P: 1-10

  • A sustainability scenario yields major co-benefits compared to technical solution-focused scenarios, leaving 386 Tg CO2eq/yr of GHG to be released while air pollutants from open burning can be eliminated before 2050, finds study on implementation of circular municipal waste management systems.

    • Adriana Gómez-Sanabria
    • Gregor Kiesewetter
    • Helmut Haberl
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 13, P: 1-12

  • Most inhabited areas in the US have more mass in buildings and mobility networks than in plant biomass. Cities are comparably resource efficient, while high material intensity is found in rural areas. Migration reinforces this phenomenon as people leave while built structures remain.

    • David Frantz
    • Franz Schug
    • Helmut Haberl
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-12

  • Safeguarding existing forests is an important ecological concern but constrains the expansion of farmland to feed the growing world population. Here the authors analyse the option space for future changes in agriculture and diets compatible with a no-deforestation goal.

    • Karl-Heinz Erb
    • Christian Lauk
    • Helmut Haberl
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 7, P: 1-9

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from ruminant meat production are significant. Reductions in global ruminant numbers could make a substantial contribution to climate change mitigation goals and yield important social and environmental co-benefits.

    • William J. Ripple
    • Pete Smith
    • Douglas H. Boucher
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 4, P: 2-5

  • A substantial fraction of the terrestrial carbon sink, past and present, may be incorrectly attributed to environmental change rather than changes in forest management.

    • Karl-Heinz Erb
    • Thomas Kastner
    • Helmut Haberl
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 3, P: 854-856

  • The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and other high-level agreements acknowledge the linked nature of social and biophysical systems. This Review explains one research tradition, sociometabolic research, that explores these links. Sociometabolic research uses methods from systems science and allied areas to study the biophysical basis of economic activity. The authors use tangible examples from recent research to demonstrate strengths and weaknesses and then explore future directions.

    • Helmut Haberl
    • Dominik Wiedenhofer
    • Marina Fischer-Kowalski
    Reviews
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 2, P: 173-184

  • Biomass turnover time is a key parameter in the global carbon cycle. An analysis of global land-use data reveals that biomass turnover is almost twice as fast when the land is used to enhance terrestrial ecosystem services.

    • Karl-Heinz Erb
    • Tamara Fetzel
    • Helmut Haberl
    Research
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 9, P: 674-678

  • The material-intensive transition to low-carbon energy will impose environmental and social burdens on local and regional communities. Demand-side strategies can help to achieve higher well-being at lower levels of energy or material use, and an interdisciplinary approach in future research is essential.

    • Felix Creutzig
    • Sofia G. Simoes
    • Charlie Wilson
    Reviews
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 14, P: 561-572