Research

Multilevel Systems Analysis and Modeling of Resources

How much and in what forms do our industrial systems, cities, and countries consume physical resources such as water, plastics, metals, and non-metalic 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?

building-level mfa

Material intensity of the Korean residential buildings

DYNAMIC AND SPATIALLY-EXPLICIT MFA

Circular economy for net-zero buildings: Development of databases and carbon mitigation modeilng framework (supported by NRF)

AI-based framework for estimating the in-use stock and embodied carbon of the built environment (supported by NRF)

plastics flow analysis

Jang et al. 2022. Plastics Flow Analysis for Korea, 2017-2019, Journal of Korea Society of Waste Management 39(3): 194-206.

Park et al. 2023. Dynamic plastics flow analysis for Korea between 1982-2020. Journal of Korean Society for Environmental Engineers 45(3): 127-137.

Plastic circular economy: pathways for zero plastic pollution and low-carbon plastics

urban water metabolism

Jeong and Park, 2020. Evaluating urban water management using a water metabolism framework: A comparative analysis of three regions of Korea, Resources, Conservation and Recycling 155: 104597.

Hong and Park, 2023. Exploring circular water options for a water-stressed city: Water metabolism analysis for Paju City, South Korea.

Holarchic system: multilevel mfa

Chertow et al. 2020. The Hawaiin Islands: Conceptualization an Industrial Ecology Holarchic System, Sustainability 12(8): 3104.

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 et al. 2023. Trade-offs between water security and energy use: Lifecycle energy of water supply options in Paju, Korea, Journal of Cleaner Production 423: 138601.

Hong and Park, 2023. Greenhouse gas emissions of an urban water system in Korea: A case study of Paju city, Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers 45(8): 357-370.

Net-zero strategies for urban water systems

ENVIRONMENTALLY-EXTENDED

INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS

Analyzing waste footprint of household consumption by constructing a Korean waste input-output table (a project led by Korea Environment Institute)

life cycle assessment

Park and Gupta, 2015. Evaluating localism in the management of post-consumer plastic bottles in Honolulu Hawaii: Perspectives from industrial ecology and political ecology, Journal of Environmental Management 154: 299-306.

REUSE POTENTIAL INDICATOR

Park and Chertow, 2014. Establishing and testing the "reuse potential" indicator for managing waste as resources, Journal of Environmental Management 137: 45-53.

Van Ewijk et al. 2018. Quantifying the system-wide recovery potential of waste in the global paper life cycle, Resources, Conservation and Recycling134: 48-60.

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?

analysis of influencing factors and determinants

Park, J. 2014. The evolution of waste into a resource: Examining innovation in technologies reusing coal combustion by-products using patent data, Research Policy 43(10): 1816-1826.

Park, J. 2014. Assessing determinants of industrial waste reuse: The case of coal ash in the United States, Resources, Conservation and Recycling 92: 116-127.

inter-firm resource sharing and

eco-industrial development

Park and Park, 2014. Securing a competitive advantage through industrial symbiosis development, Journal of Industrial Ecology 18(5): 677-683.

Boons et al. 2017. Industrial symbiosis dynamics and the problem of equivalence: Proposal for a comparative framework, Journal of Industrial Ecology 21(4): 938-952.

Park et al. 2018. Facilitating business collaborations for industrial symbiosis: The pilot experience of the sustainable industrial network program in Colombia, Sustainability 10(10): 3637.

Park et al. 2019. Scaling-up of industrial symbiosis in the Korean National Eco-Industrial Park Program: Examining its evolution over the 10 years between 2005-2014, Journal of Industrial Ecology 23(1): 197-207.

Chertow et al. 2021. Tracking the diffusion of industrial symbiosis scholarship using bibliometrics, Journal of Industrial Ecology 25(4): 913-931.

governance

Park et al. 2018. Challenges in implementing the extended producer responsibility in an emerging economy: The end-of-life tire management in Colombia, Journal of Cleaner Production 189: 754-762.

gender and plastic circular economy

Identifying gender issues along the plastic value chain and circular economy: the case study of Korea (supported by GISTeR)

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