Water, energy, and carbon dioxide footprints of the construction sector: a case study on developed and developing economies
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Pomponi, F., & Stephan, A. (2021)
Water, energy, and carbon dioxide footprints of the construction sector: a case study on developed and developing economies. Water Research, 194, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.116935
Buildings and construction are major driver of anthropogenic environmental effects. While energy use and CO2 emissions of buildings and construction have been quantified, thei...
A Novel Method for Estimating Emissions Reductions Caused by the Restriction of Mobility: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Pomponi, F., Li, M., Sun, Y., Malik, A., Lenzen, M., Fountas, G., …Luque Anguita, M. (2021)
A Novel Method for Estimating Emissions Reductions Caused by the Restriction of Mobility: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Environmental Science and Technology Letters, 8(1), 46-52. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00764
The COVID-19 pandemic is the single largest event in contemporary history for global mobility restriction, with the majority of the world population experiencing various forms...
Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts
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Pomponi, F., & D’Amico, B. (2020)
Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts. Sustainability, 12(21), https://doi.org/10.3390/su12219189
Projected population growth and urbanization rates will create a huge demand for new buildings and put an unprecedented pressure on the natural environment and its limited res...
Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink? A Reality Check on Feasibility Limits
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Pomponi, F., Hart, J., Arehart, J. H., & D’Amico, B. (2020)
Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink? A Reality Check on Feasibility Limits. One Earth, 3(2), 157-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.07.018
The built environment is hard to decarbonize but has a pivotal role in climate-change mitigation amid rapid urbanization. Substituting conventional building materials with bio...
Global potential for material substitution in building construction: the case of cross laminated timber
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D'Amico, B., Pomponi, F., & Hart, J. (2021)
Global potential for material substitution in building construction: the case of cross laminated timber. Journal of Cleaner Production, 279, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123487
The building and construction sector is a large contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and consumes the vastest amount of natural resources. Widely considered a...
The ‘building paradox’: research on building-related environmental effects requires global visibility and attention
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Pomponi, F., Crawford, R., Stephan, A., Hart, J., & D'Amico, B. (2023)
The ‘building paradox’: research on building-related environmental effects requires global visibility and attention. Emerald Open Research, 1(5), https://doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.13838.1
The construction and operation of buildings is a major contributor to global energy demand, greenhouse gases emissions, resource depletion, waste generation, and associated en...
Circular cities: the case of Singapore
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Carrière, S., Weigend Rodriguez, R., Pey, P., Pomponi, F., & Ramakrishna, S. (2020)
Circular cities: the case of Singapore. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 10(4), 491-507. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-12-2019-0137
Circular Economy (CE), as a new economic paradigm has gained traction in recent years. Cities’ role in driving CE forward has been perceived as being increasingly important to...
Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the Coronavirus pandemic
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Lenzen, M., Li, M., Malik, A., Pomponi, F., Sun, Y., Wiedmann, T., …Yousefzadeh, M. (2020)
Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the Coronavirus pandemic. PLOS ONE, 15(7), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235654
On 3 April 2020, the Director-General of the WHO stated: “[COVID-19] is much more than a health crisis. We are all aware of the profound social and economic consequences of th...
The Future of the Circular Economy & the Circular Economy of the Future
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Weigend, R., Pomponi, F., Webster, K., & D'Amico, B. (2020)
The Future of the Circular Economy & the Circular Economy of the Future. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 10(4), 529-546. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-07-2019-0063
In the published online version the abstract suffered minor changes. The new abstract reads:
The circular economy (CE) has gained momentum in recent years as a new economic pa...
How Do People Move Around? National Data on Transport Modal Shares for 131 Countries
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Fountas, G., Sun, Y., Akizu-Gardoki, O., & Pomponi, F. (2020)
How Do People Move Around? National Data on Transport Modal Shares for 131 Countries. World, 1(1), 34-43. https://doi.org/10.3390/world1010003
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought global mobility into the spotlight, with well over 100 countries having instituted either a full or partial lockdown by April 2020. Reduced m...