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dc.contributor.authorPauliuk, Stefan
dc.contributor.authorMüller, Daniel Beat
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-13T07:47:19Z
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-16T15:30:59Z
dc.date.available2013-11-13T07:47:19Z
dc.date.available2015-12-16T15:30:59Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationGlobal Environmental Change 2013nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn0959-3780
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2367975
dc.description.abstractHuman well-being includes the use of physical services from buildings, infrastructure, and consumer products. These in-use stocks link the services enjoyed by humans to energy and material consumption. Climate change mitigation requires us to transform current in-use stocks to decouple energy and material throughput from service provision. Assessing the potential environmental benefits of emissions mitigation and other sustainable development strategies requires a solid understanding of in-use stocks and their dynamics. We identified the different roles of in-use stocks in the social metabolism and showed to what extent they are included in current impact assessment models. We extended state-of-the-art dynamic stock models by including direct and indirect energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. We applied the new modeling framework to three case studies in the major sectors transportation, buildings, and industry. We assessed the emissions reduction potential of the decoupling strategies energy efficiency, material efficiency, and moderate lifestyle changes. For the global steel industry and for residential buildings the emissions reduction potential of the above-mentioned strategies was so large that the benchmarks corresponding to the 2 °C climate target could be reached. Decoupling alone might be sufficient to reach the 2 °C benchmarks in some sectors. Considering decoupling next to supply side measures such as new energy technologies may make it easier to consider other objectives than emissions reduction. Decoupling may therefore revitalize the debate about sustainable development because it allows us to loosen the focus on climate change mitigation and put more weight on the economic, social, cultural, and other environmental aspects of sustainability.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherElseviernb_NO
dc.titleThe Role of In-Use Stocks in the Social Metabolism and in Climate Change Mitigationnb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer revieweden_GB
dc.date.updated2013-11-13T07:47:19Z
dc.source.volume24nb_NO
dc.source.journalGlobal Environmental Changenb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.11.006
dc.identifier.cristin1064301
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 209697nb_NO
dc.description.localcode(c)2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is the authors' accepted and refereed manuscript to the article. Locked uttil 2016-11-06 due to the copyright restriction.nb_NO


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