Multilevel Systems Analysis of Resource Flows
How much and in what forms do our industrial systems, cities, and countries consume physical resources such as water, plastics, metals, and non-metallic minerals, across all life-cycle stages from extraction to end-of-life?
How efficient do our production and consumption systems in using these physical resources? Where are the problem hotspots? To what extent could the resource efficiency be improved through which options?
BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Lim, H. Evaluating mitigation potential of embodied carbon emissions in Korea's residential buildings
Seo et al. Building-level high-resolution mapping of Korea's housing stock
PLASTICS
Lim, J. 2025. Quantifying high-resolution plastic flows and pathways to a circular economy in South Korea from 1962 to 2050.
WATER SYSTEMS
Hong and Park, Evaluating temporal dynamics of water-related carbon emissions over a decade in Korea.
WASTE
Spatial mapping of in-use stock and recycling potentials of solar panels in Korea
Circular pathway for waste plastics: evaluating environmental impacts of competing demands
Sustainability Assessment and Indicators
How could we assess sustainability of a technology, product, industrial system, and/or activity, from a holistic systems and life-cycle perspectives? What would be sustainability effect of alternative strategies?
What metrics and indicators would be useful for sustainability assessment in a specific context?
WATER-ENERGY-CARBON NEXUS
Hong and Park, Greenhouse gas emission mitigation potential of city-wide strategies across urban water system
BIOGENIC CARBON ACCOUNTING
Soh, J. Dynamic life cycle assessment of bioenergy from forest residues: accounting for forest management and soil carbon dynamics.
Lee, G. Evaluating the potential for carbon reduction through cascading wood use in Korea
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT
Song et al. An LCA framework for a circular economy: accounting for the circularity potential across multiple lifecycles
Song et al. LCA-guided design for electrochemical metal recovery from Lithium-ion battery leachate
ENVIRONMENTALLY-EXTENDED INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS
Park, Y. Embodied carbon flow of the iron and steel industry in major steel-producing countries.
Analyzing economy-wide waste generation using Korea's waste input-output table (with KEI)
REUSE POTENTIAL INDICATOR
Interdisciplinary Understanding of Resource Management
What influences and govern the material flows? What are the consequences of different options for resource management?
How to promote changes toward more effiecient and circular material flows?
Hong and Park, Mainstreaming circular economy through finance: empirical insights from a taxonomy-based analysis of public spending in Korea
Identifying gender issues along the plastic value chain and circular economy: the case study of Korea (supported by GISTeR)
INTER-FIRM RESOURCE SHARING AND ECO-INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
