Workshop Sustainable Societal Metabolisms

Contribution List

6. Welcome and introduction

Walther Zeug

18/11/2025, 09:00

Welcome & Framing

Welcome and introduction to the UFZ & the research group ISAS (Integrated Sustainability Assessment of Societal Systems)

Getting to Know Each Other by a short introduction

4. Framing the Challenge: Problem, Approach & Shared Aims

Walther Zeug

18/11/2025, 10:15

Welcome & Framing

In this session, Walther Zeug will give a pitch to explore the core challenge that motivates this workshop: achieving sustainable societal metabolisms within ecological and societal boundaries. Walther will introduce the key problems, conceptual foundations, and proposed research framework. We will then engage in an open discussion to reflect on participants' perspectives, disciplinary...

8. Footprints & LCA

Clemens Mostert (Universität Kassel)

18/11/2025, 13:15

Module 1 – Resources: Regional and global sustainable availability of fossil, biogenic, and socioeconomic resources

tba, How can footprint methods contribute to determine sustainable (regional) resource availability and use?

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Q&A 5 min

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10. Material Flow Accounting

Hanspeter Wieland (Institute of Social Ecology (BOKU University Vienna))

18/11/2025, 13:40

Module 1 – Resources: Regional and global sustainable availability of fossil, biogenic, and socioeconomic resources

tba, How can MFA contribute to determine sustainable (regional) resource availability and use?

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Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min

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9. Using remote sensing for live monitoring of pollutant emissions: prospects for democratic economic planning

Andrew Pendergrass (Duke University)

18/11/2025, 14:05

Module 1 – Resources: Regional and global sustainable availability of fossil, biogenic, and socioeconomic resources

Satellites and ground-based monitors can measure pollutants in the air but cannot infer their sources directly; pollutants may have blown downwind or reacted away. Knowledge of emissions comes instead from inventories, which are maps of pollutant sources along with their expected emissions magnitudes, constructed from information such as infrastructure plans and economic reports. Inventories...

12. Economic Systems

Jakob Heyer (University of Jena)

18/11/2025, 15:00

Module 2 – Production Systems: Sectoral resource use, intermediate interlinkages, and technology pathways

tba, Which economic system models of production systems and dynamics as well as alternative technological and organizational pathways are there?

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Presentation 20 min
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Q&A 5 min

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14. HILCSA and CDEP

Walther Zeug

18/11/2025, 15:25

Module 2 – Production Systems: Sectoral resource use, intermediate interlinkages, and technology pathways

tba, Holistic and Integrated Sustainability Assessment and Cybernetic Democratic Economic Planning

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Q&A 5 min

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15. Societal Metabolisms

Laura Perez Sanchez (ICTA-UAB)

18/11/2025, 15:50

Module 2 – Production Systems: Sectoral resource use, intermediate interlinkages, and technology pathways

tba, Which methodologies and databases help us understanding current production systems and dynamics of societal metabolisms?

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Q&A 5 min

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19. Human Wellbeing and Prerquisites

Lea Agnes Tamberg

19/11/2025, 09:00

Module 3 - Consumption Systems: Needs, Practices, and Infrastructures of Consumption

tba, What is and how to measure human wellbeing by which data and which implications are there on consumption modeling, behavioral patterns and justice implications?

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Q&A 5 min

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20. Decent Living Standards

Hauke Schlesier (EMPA)

19/11/2025, 09:25

Module 3 - Consumption Systems: Needs, Practices, and Infrastructures of Consumption

tba, What are decent living standards within planetary boundaries and which implications are there for consumption modeling, behavioral patterns, and justice implications?

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21. Economic, Spatial and Sectoral Distributions

Peter-Paul Pichler

19/11/2025, 09:50

Module 3 - Consumption Systems: Needs, Practices, and Infrastructures of Consumption

tba, How can economic, spatial and sectoral distributions of impact be measured and which implications are there on consumption modeling, behavioral patterns, and justice implications?.

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16. Governmentality of Transformations

Jan Groos (Kiel University)

19/11/2025, 10:45

Module 4 – Political-Social Systems and Communication

tba, What are possbile governmentalities of transformations and their implications on science-policy interfaces, communication and public engagement in shaping just and democratic transitions?

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17. Decarbonization state

Ulrich Brand (University of Vienna)

19/11/2025, 11:10

Module 4 – Political-Social Systems and Communication

tba, Why is the decarbonization of current states limited and which implications are there for governance frameworks, science-policy interfaces, and the role of communication and public engagement in shaping just and democratic transitions?

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18. Political Economy, Incommensurability, Environment and Planning

John O'Neill (University of Manchester)

19/11/2025, 11:35

Module 4 – Political-Social Systems and Communication

tba, What are implications from the political economy of planning on governance frameworks, science-policy interfaces, and the role of communication and public engagement in shaping just and democratic transitions?

24. Labour and Care in Just Transition

Anna Katharina Keil (University of Lausanne)

19/11/2025, 12:00

Module 4 – Political-Social Systems and Communication

tba, Which concepts of labour and care are there in debates on just transitions and which impications do they have on governance frameworks, science-policy interfaces, and the role of communication and public engagement in shaping just and democratic transitions?

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22. Computational Modelling of Complex Systems

Yannick Oswald (University of Lausanne)

19/11/2025, 13:40

Module 5 – Data Science and AI: Capabilities of Data-Driven Methods

tba, How and which data science can help us enhancing model interoperability, scenario analysis, and interdisciplinary collaboration?

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23. Agent Based Modelling

Joel Foramitti (Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ))

19/11/2025, 14:05

Module 5 – Data Science and AI: Capabilities of Data-Driven Methods

tba, How can agent based modelling contribute to enhancing model interoperability, scenario analysis, and interdisciplinary collaboration?

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Presentation 20 min
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25. Andres