This study posits that technology actors and stakeholders hold different intentions for sustainability interests. This dissimilarity between sustainability intentions determines the strategic choice of materiality setting adopted when disclosing non-standardized (i.e. non-financial) data to the...

Drawing upon the literature on environmental innovation and social metabolism, this paper investigates whether technology can lessen the problem of scarce natural resources. We focus on fossil and biomass materials as important resources for production and consumption. Utilizing a dynamic panel...

The relevance of efficient direct material input through both export market and domestic material sources offers useful material and resource productivity guidelines from both economic and environmental sustainability dimensions. In the current context, the drivers of material and resource...

"Durch die Menschen ist die Erde voller Gewalttat." So sprach ER und beschloss. "Nun will ich sie zugleich mit der Erde verderben." -- Zur profitgetriebenen Verwüstung unseres Planeten als Preis für fragwürdigen Fortschritt. Ein (fiktives) Interview mit Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels und Papst...

Deploying low-carbon electricity systems in developing countries is critical for meeting climate targets while increasing wellbeing. Direct emissions from operating electricity generation are well-understood, however, materials required to construct technologies and their emissions - embodied...