Recent Publications

Prof. Dr. Helga Weisz

2016

  • Lenton, T. M.; Pichler, P.-P.; Weisz, H. (2016), Revolutions in energy input and material cycling in Earth history and human history, Earth System Dynamics, 7 , 2, pp 353-370.
  • Krausmann, F.; Weisz, H.; Eisenmenger, N. (2016), Transitions in Sociometabolic Regimes Throughout Human History, Social Ecology, pp 63-92, Ed.: Haberl, H.; Fischer-Kowalski, M.; Krausmann, F.; Winiwarter, V., Cham : Springer

2015

  • Agarwala, M.; Binner, A.; Weisz, H.; Schellnhuber, H. J.; Doherty, P.; Moerner, W. E.; Smoot, G. F. (2015), Climate policy: Push to decarbonize cities after Paris talks [Correspondence], Nature, 528 , 7581, pp 193-193.
  • Weisz, H.; Suh, S.; Graedel, T. E. (2015), Industrial Ecology: The role of manufactured capital in sustainability [Introduction], Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 112 , 20, pp. 6260-6264

2014

  • Schaffartzik, A.; Eisenmenger, N.; Krausmann, F.; Weisz, H. (2014), Consumption-based material flow accounting. Austrian trade and consumption in Raw Material Equivalents 1995-2007, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 18, 1, pp.102-112

2013

  • Minx, J.; Baiocchi, G.; Wiedmann, T.; Barrett, J.; Creutzig, F.; Feng, K.; Förster, M.; Pichler, P.-P.; Weisz, H.; Hubacek, K. (2013), Carbon footprints of cities and other human settlements in the UK, Environmental Research Letters, 8 , 035039
  • Weisz, H. (2013), Towards a socio-metabolic history of cities, In: Mieg, H. and Töpfer, K. (eds.): Social Urban Transformations: Social innovations for local and global sustainability change, Earthscan by Routledge, pp. 323-334
  • Steinberger, J.; Weisz, H. (2013), City walls and urban hinterlands. The importance of system boundaries , In: Grubler; A.; Fisk, D. (eds.): Energizing Sustainable Cities: Assessing Urban Energy, Earthscan by Routledge, pp. 41-56
  • Weisz, H.; Koch, H.; Lasch, P.; Walkenhorst, O.; Peters, V.; Vögele, S.; Hattermann, F. F.; Huang, S.; Aich, V.; Büchner, M.; Gutsch, M.; Pichler, P.-P.; Suckow, F. (2013), Methode einer integrierten und erweiterten Vulnerabilitätsbewertung: Konzeptuell-methodische Grundlagen und exemplarische Umsetzung für Wasserhaushalt, Stromerzeugung und energetische Nutzung von Holz unter Klimawandel, Berlin : Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, p. 251

2012

  • Bai, X.; Dhakal, S.; Steinberger, J.; Weisz, H. (2012), Drivers of urban energy use and main policy leverages, In: Grubler, A.; Fisk, D. (eds.): Energizing Sustainable Cities: Assessing Urban Energy, Earthscan by Routledge. pp. 120-134
  • A. Grubler, X. Bai, T. Buettner, S. Dhakal, D. J. Fisk, T. Ichinose, J. Keirstead, G. Sammer, D. Satterthwaite, N. B. Schulz, N. Shah, J. Steinberger, H. Weisz (2012), Urban Energy Systems, In: L. Gomez-Echeverri, T.B. Johansson, N. Nakicenovic, A. Patwardhan, (eds.), Global Energy Assessment: Toward a Sustainable Future, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria and Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. and New York, USA. pp. 1307-1400

2011

  • Weisz, H.; Clark, E. (2011), Society-nature coevolution: interdisciplinary concept for sustainability, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 93, pp. 281-287
  • Weisz, H. (2011) , The probability of the improbable. Society-nature coevolution, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 93, pp. 325-336
  • Fischer-Kowalski, M.; Krausmann, F.; Giljum, S.; Lutter, S.; Mayer, A.; Bringezu, S.; Moriguchi, Y.; Schütz, H.; Schandl, H.; Weisz, H. (2011), Methodology and Indicators of Economy-wide Material Flow Accounting, Journal of Industrial Ecology 15, pp. 855-876

2010

  • Weisz, H.; J. K. Steinberger (2010), Reducing energy and material flows in cities, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2, 3, pp. 185–192

2009

  • Weisz, H. (2009), Wenn alles bleiben soll wie es ist, muss sich alles ändern. Kommentar zu R. P. Sieferle (GAIA 17/2, 2008) und M. Fischer-Kowalski (GAIA 18/1, 2009), GAIA 18/2, pp. 104-106
  • Weisz, H.; Tukker, A. (2009), Book review: Sangwon Suh (Ed): Handbook of Input-Output Economics in Industrial Ecology, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 13 , 5, pp. 830-832

2008

  • Weisz, H.; Schandl, H. (2008), Editorial: Material use across world regions. Inevitable pasts and possible futures, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 12, 5-6, pp. 629-636