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The development and maintenance of our built environment contribute substantially to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with approximately 40% attributed to these activities (Hossain & Ng, 2019). With issues of energy efficiency of buildings being increasingly addressed, the focus is turning to embodied (or grey) emissions, arising from the extraction, transportation, and manufacturing of raw materials. Construction activities – including use, refurbishment, and demolition – contribute to approximately 40% of the global resource extraction and 25% of global waste generation (Hossain & Ng, 2019). As the climate crisis unfolds, urgent measures are necessary to minimize these impacts, with the circular economy (CE) emerging as a pertinent paradigm for achieving sustainable resource use in the built environment.
CE strategies for the built environment include prioritizing continued use of existing buildings through refurbishment and transformation, reuse of building components and materials, recycling, and designing for adaptability and/or disassembly. However, although CE can significantly reduce global GHG emissions and resource use linked to construction materials, our built environment construction industry remains entrenched in the linear economy. Barriers to the widespread implementation of CE include resistance to change, lack of awareness and education, and/or regulatory hurdles, compounded by insufficient understanding of the dynamics of built environment stocks and limited quantitative information on their material make-up. Owing to the intrinsic characteristics of the built environment, such as its long lifespans and intricate material compositions, key information on change drivers and mechanisms, material types, quantities, location, material availability, and potentials for circularity are often limited. These knowledge gaps hinder stakeholders’ ability to identify, assess, and implement circular strategies at a broad scale.
Recognizing these challenges, researchers have turned to spatialized material stock analysis (MSA) as a crucial tool for quantifying and localizing the types of construction materials stocked in buildings and infrastructures over time. Almost 15 years ago, Tanikawa and Hashimoto (2009) conducted their seminal spatial MSA of two neighborhoods in the UK and Japan, where they quantified and localized the types of construction materials stocked in buildings and infrastructures over time. Spatial MSA has now evolved into a standalone research topic, with studies conducted at various spatial scales, resolutions, and time periods. Most notably, the integration of MSA with spatial tools (e.g., GIS and remote sensing) has facilitated the mapping of secondary resources stocked in a case study area, thus allowing the spatial analysis of material stocks and the dynamics behind their accumulation and management (Soonsawad et al. 2022).
The field of spatialized MSA is rapidly evolving, marked by diversification in data sources and modeling methods spurred by advancements in digital technologies (e.g., machine learning, remote sensing, satellite imagery, and more) (Liang et al. 2023). As spatial MSA methods diversify, integration with various disciplinary fields, such as spatial analysis, life cycle assessment, economics, and logistics is also underway. However, the relevance of spatial MSA results to different stakeholders has only been sporadically showcased. Overall, MSA researchers need to ensure spatially refined results in their modelling, but also further engage with other disciplinary fields and relevant stakeholders if MSA is to support the implementation of CE (Wuyts et al. 2022).
As such, this SI invites researchers to contribute their original research, case studies, and review articles on the latest advancements and best practices in spatialized MSA of the built environment to support circularity. The goal is to promote knowledge exchange, collaboration, and support the transition to a circular economy and sustainable built environment.
The scope of this special issue includes (but is not limited to) the following topics.
Manuscript submission information:
A Virtual Special Issue (VSI) is an online-only grouping of Special Issue articles traditionally assigned to a single Special Issue. The articles in a VSI will be assigned a unique identifier and published in a regular journal issue. The unique identifier allows for simultaneously adding the article to a VSI in ScienceDirect.com. Articles grouped together in a VSI retain their original citation details. A VSI speeds up the publication of individual articles as, unlike the publication process for conventional Special Issue articles, a VSI does not need to wait for the final article to be ready before publication.
A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide for Authors” at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/resources-conservation-and-recycling. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the online editorial system (https://www.editorialmanager.com/recycl). The authors must select “VSI: Spatialized material stock analysis” in the submission process.
Important Dates
· Full paper submission deadline: 30 September 2024
· Publication: As soon as accepted (VSI)
References:
Hossain, M. U., & Ng, S. T. (2019). Influence of waste materials on buildings’ life cycle environmental impacts: Adopting resource recovery principle. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 142, 10-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105778
Liang, H., Bian, X., Dong, L., Shen, W., Chen, S.S., Wang, Q., 2023. Mapping the evolution of building material stocks in three eastern coastal urban agglomerations of China. Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 188, 106651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106651
Soonsawad, N., Martinez, R.M., Schandl, H., 2022. Material demand, and environmental and climate implications of Australia’s building stock: Current status and outlook to 2060. Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 180, 106143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.106143
Tanikawa, H., Hashimoto, S., 2009. Urban stock over time: spatial material stock analysis using 4d-GIS. Build. Res. Inf. 37, 483–502. https://doi.org/10.1080/09613210903169394
Wuyts, W., Miatto, A., Khumvongsa, K., Guo, J., Aalto, P., Huang, L., 2022. How Can Material Stock Studies Assist the Implementation of the Circular Economy in Cities? Environ. Sci. Technol. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c05275
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Special issue information
期刊名称：Resources, Conservation and Recycling
影响因子：11.2
JCR分区：
Q1- ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL, 6/81
Q1- ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, 15/358
中科院分区：
中科院大类：环境科学与生态学1区Top
中科院小类：ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL工程：环境1区
中科院小类：ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES环境科学
审稿周期：119天
The special editor：
Maud Lanau
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Email: maud.lanau@chalmers.se
Danielle Densley Tingley
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK
Email: d.densleytingley@sheffield.ac.uk
Satu Huuhka
Tampere University,School of Architecture,Tampere,Finland
Email:satu.huuhka@tuni.fi
Ruichang Mao
Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Email: rmao@dtu.dk
Georg Schiller
Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, Germany
Email:g.schiller@ioer.de
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