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Papering over space and place: Product carbon footprint modeling in global paper industry
Through a comparative model of energy sources and emissions in the globalized paper industry, this article reveals how complexities associated with geographic variation and land use change create indeterminancy in…
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Life-cycle emissions from port electrification: A case study of cargo handling tractors at the Port of Los Angeles
To reduce greenhouse emissions, ports around the world are considering using electric cargo handling equipment. To assess the benefits of the strategy, this study provides a comparative life-cycle assessment between…
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The forgotten and the future: Reclaiming back alleys for a sustainable city
Alleys represent unrealized community assets that could be transformed by urban planners and managers into ‘green infrastructure’ to simultaneously offer multiple ecological, economic, and social benefits– including urban walkability and…
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Linking ecological footprints with ecosystem valuation in the provisioning of urban freshwater
Two prominent and alternate approaches, ecosystem service valuation and ecological footprints, link the production of ecosystem services with their consumption by societies. We combined these two approaches to better understand…
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Twenty-five years of sprawl in the Seattle Region: Growth management responses and implications for conservation
To study the effects of growth management efforts on urban fringe areas in Washington State’s Puget Sound region, USA, this study documents and quantifies transformation in land cover and land-use…
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Illegal logging in the Russian Far East and Siberia
The vast forests of the Russian Far East and Siberia represent one of the last great forest wildernesses in the world, containing large expanses of boreal and northern temperate forest…
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The Russian Far East: Foreign direct investment and environmental destruction
The Russian Far East has long been regarded by Moscow as a natural resource base. Under the Soviet regime, huge industrial complexes were set up to exploit the region’s abundant…
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Generating Resilience: Exploring the contribution of the small power producers and very small power producer programs to the resilience of Thailand’s power sector
“Resilience thinking” is an increasingly popular approach among scholars and policymakers, with advocates heralding it as the successor to the dominant sustainable development paradigm. This article examines two programs for…
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Developing a science of infrastructure ecology for sustainable urban systems
Engineering research has conceptualized and modeled cities as an organismic metabolism, consuming energy and materials, and metabolizing them, and generating emissions and waste. But through this material and energy flow…
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Accounting for forest carbon pool dynamics in product carbon footprints: Challenges and opportunities
Modification and loss of forests due to natural and anthropogenic disturbance contribute an estimated 20% of annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide. Although forest carbon pool modeling rarely suggests a…