Parallel Sessions; Sept. 21, 2011

11:00-12:30

Topic 1: Security of Supply 

  • Potentials and limits of recycling in a sociometabolic context (Willi Haas, Austria)
  • A Footprint Family extended MRIO model to support Europe's transition to a One Planet Economy (Alessandro Galli, Italy)
  • The role of the informal sector in the management of secondary resources – the case of e-Waste in West Africa (Mathias Schluep, Switzerland
  • Critical materials and dissipative losses: a screening study (Stefan Gössling-Reisemann, Germany)
  • Dissipation and the Need for Benign Design (Klaus Kümmerer, Germany)

Topic 2: Growth, Innovation, Decoupling, Efficiency and Sufficiency 

  • Sustainable use of resources between scientific awareness and implementation in politics (Ion Karagounis, Switzerland)
  • Ethical Water Stock Exchange (Valérie Issumo, Switzerland)
  • New Horizons of Natural Resources in the Eurasia: Southeastern Anatolia Region and Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) in Turkey (Bulent Acma, Turkey)
  • Sustainable demand for wood in case of increasing demands for renewables? (Witold Roger Poganietz, Germany)
  • Renewable Energy Sources and the Control of Global Warming, Pollution (S.A. Abbasi, India)

Topic 3: Assessment Methods, Resource Use Indicators and Targets 

  • Global life cycles for four rare earth elements (Xiaoyue Du, USA)
  • Developing Countries must Look Inwards to Move Outward: An Analysis on Efficient Resource Utilization (Sridhar Mynepalli, Nigeria)
  • Visualization of Inter-industry Material Flow and Impurities in Iron and Steel Scrap along the Supply Chain of a Passenger Car (Yasushi Kondo, Norway)
  • Stochastic approach using Monte Carlo Simulation for LCI applied to the ArcelorMittal Steel Poland S.A. in Krakow, Poland steel process chain case study (Boguslaw Bieda, Poland)
  • Analysis of the slaughterhouses in Galicia (NW Spain) (Pastora Bello Bugallo, Spain)

Topic 5: Communication and Education 

  • Resource efficiency and Culture - workplace training for small and medium sized enterprises (Holger Rohn, Germany)
  • Visual Creativity for Sustainability Communication (Helmut Langer, Germany)
  • REdUSE Global Resource Report I – the relation between resource extraction and water use (Stephan Lutter, Austria)
  • Application of the ecological backpack for the communication on sustainable production-consumption systems (Michael Lettenmeier, Finland)
  • Application of resource productivity for higher education in food and nutrition (Petra Teitscheid, Germany)
  • Communication and Education Educate Women through Community Radio on Sustainable Resource Management (D. S. Samaranayake, Speaker H.M.L.C. Jayawardhana, Sri Lanka)