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After the very good reviews of post-growth sustainability scenarios Lauer et al. 2025, and Edwards et al. 2025, we have assessed 60 economy-wide scenarios both explicitly post-growth/degrowth and others with PG features.
Now available as a preprint: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

consulting StackOverflow instead of using AI for coding is like getting a nice warm and nostalgic hug

I love when a paper has an introduction with a literature review that could almost be a whole literature review by itself.

Made in Germany” cars: Germany captures wages while labour and emissions occur elsewhere To what extent are vehicles labelled “Made in Germany” actually produced in Germany? A new study conducted at ICTA-UAB shows that, while the...

🚗🏭🧑‍🔧 “Made in Germany” Cars: Germany concentrates the wages, but the work and emissions occur in other countries.

A study by @lapersanc.bsky.social from ICTA-UAB reveals that 73% of wages were generated in Germany, but not 63% of emissions or 54% of the work.

www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

This is so, so well-articulated.

Crec que enmig d'una crisi mundial de combustibles fòssils de l'òstia va supermalament tenir la xarxa de Rodalies de manteniments, obres vàries i busos substitutoris.
Vull dir, ara es veurà encara més la situació crítica del sistema que ha sofert de la manca d'inversions durant dècades.

Detailing methods, limitations and uncertainties is more important than presenting the results of a model.

Esto me interesa particularmente porque muchos de los análisis de sostenibilidad se basan en ingresos y gastos, y hay el debate sobre la centralidad de wealth (y falta de datos mayúscula).

Una persona que haya comprado este año seguramente tendrá menos capacidad de ahorro que una que lo hiciera en 2020.

No solo el tema de los boomers que se ha hablado tanto últimamente. Es que ni siquiera es lo mismo haber comprado este año que hace 3 o 4. Viendo como están los precios e inseguridad de los alquileres, la gente que haya podido se habrá metido en una hipoteca complicada.

supongo que es complicado hacer un análisis también en el tiempo, pero creo que es una cuestión clave también saber en qué momento tanto vital como "histórico" las personas que tienen propiedad, la han adquirido.

Interesante el informe de Oxfam que acaba de salir sobre la vivienda en España. La vivienda es como EL FACTOR diferencial ahora mismo en España. Era fácil de entender antes pero el informe pone muchos números y entrevistas:
www.oxfamintermon.org/es/publicaci...

I don't know whether someone needed to know that but I figured out today how to switch between author and reviewer mode in Editorial Manager!!!!

Gafarrons i caderneres piulen al balcó mentre teletreballo 🐦‍⬛🐦🐥😊😊😊

Because it is so far in the future, affecting our children's lives more directly than our own, the CO2 question has an unreal aura about it. It lacks the impact of an oil embargo. Yet the question is real, and while the work we present here indicates that major man-made climate changes may not be waiting just beyond the turn of the century, we do find that CO2 concentrations will almost certainly double within 100 years.

"... the CO2 question has an unreal aura about it. It lacks the impact of an oil embargo. Yet the question is real"

How much are "Made in Germany" vehicles really "Made in Germany"?🚗. In this new paper, we analyse the regional and sectoral contribution of working time, salaries and GHG emissions of vehicles produced and consumed in Germany, and estimate impacts per vehicle 1995-2020.
doi.org/10.1016/j.sp...

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📢 I am recruiting a Chapter Scientist to work with me and the author team of Working Group 3 Chapter 3, on projected futures in the context of sustainable development and climate change.

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currently angry with a very untransparent methods section

We just noticed this very interesting review of macro-level life cycle assessment studies didn't include our paper de Tomás-Pascual et al. (2025) because they made the last search exactly the same day our paper got accepted :_( doi.org/10.1007/s113...

And a more general paper on the sustainability of households including both social and material aspects. It also reflects on how functions within and outside home are related, and ultimately the distance between them (proximity and vitality) affects mobility.
doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

An analysis and exploration of potential futures of the lock-in of suburban sprawl (in Sweden) as a constraint for lower-impact mobility committing practices and emissions.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

Another quantitative analysis on the automotive industry in the EU but in a Production-based social metabolism perspective also analysing the concepts of productivity and the different functions of the same industry in different countries
doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

My PhD thesis explored many sectors and methodologies but, ultimately, there was a bit of coherence between some papers following the system of automobility (Sheller and Urry, 2000, Urry, 2004): the coherent system of industries, culture and infrastructure reproducing private car mobility

This has been the last paper stemming from my PhD thesis (although not officially in my dissertation) at @icta-uab.bsky.social . I’m very happy to close that chapter. It started in my research stay at CML Leiden University @unileiden.bsky.social with the contribution of Glenn Aguilar-Hernandez.

What has happened since 2020? What will happen in a future where we can expect that cars are smaller, electric and less? Still lots of questions to answer.

We used @exiobase.bsky.social. The tables after 2020 are not backed by real data yet and we had to stop there our analysis, while we know that the industry has changed substantially since then. But vehicle production in Germany has even slowed down substantially since 2017.

In the paper, there are more results and discussion, including the trends in time 1995-2020, and the resource requirements per vehicle, which are comparable to results in LCA. We add the working time per vehicle, which is about 1400 h/veh and we can assume it to be a relatively good proxy for a car.