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Edgar G. Hertwich

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Professor

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

8

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570

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0

Scholarly Papers (8)

1.

Policy for Material Efficiency: Enabling New Climate Change Mitigation Strategies

WIREs Climate Change, volume 15, issue 3, 2024[10.1002/wcc.881]
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Nov 2023
Reid Lifset, Edgar G. Hertwich and Tamar Makov
Yale School of the Environment, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Downloads 150 (502,974)

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Automobiles, circular economy, climate change, greenhouse gas (GHG), housing, material efficiency,

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High resolution GDP modelling for climate risk assessments with an application to coastal flooding in Norway

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2026
NILU, NILU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and NILU
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climate adaptation, natural hazards, economic model, value added, input output analysis, hypothetical extraction method, coastal flooding, employment

3.

The Influence of Building Types and Clusters on Thermal Comfort in Urban India

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Sep 2023
Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Yale School of the Environment
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Indian residential buildings, Thermal Comfort, heat stress, developing countries, building energy modeling

Future Resource Efficiency Scenarios for the Western Asian and Northern African Residential Buildings: An Exploratory Study

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 10 Oct 2024
Sahin Akin, Fabio Carrer and Edgar G. Hertwich
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
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Western Asia and Northern Africa, Dynamic Stock Modeling, Resource Efficiency Scenarios, Built environment, climate change mitigation, Energy Efficiency

Future Resource Efficiency Scenarios for the Western Asian and Northern African Residential Buildings: An Exploratory Study

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Aug 2024
Sahin Akin, Fabio Carrer and Edgar G. Hertwich
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
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Western Asia and Northern Africa, Dynamic Stock Modeling, Resource Efficiency Scenarios, Built Environment, Climate Change Mitigation, energy efficiency

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Reducing Resource Use of Key Services: Circularity Strategies in the Stock-Flow-Service Nexus

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Jun 2025
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Leiden University, Leiden University - CML, Department Industrial Ecology, Leiden University - CML, Department Industrial Ecology, Leiden University, University of Freiburg, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), affiliation not provided to SSRN, Utrecht University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Utrecht University - Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, NOVA University of Lisbon, NOVA University of Lisbon, Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences, Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences, Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Service demand, Socio-economic metabolism, Lifetimes, Material composition, In-use stocks, Circular economy

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Archetype-Based Life-Cycle Assessment of National Residential Building Stocks: Resource Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Western Asia and Northern Africa

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 29 Aug 2024
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, ReStore and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
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Western Asia and Northern Africa, Life Cycle Analysis, Resource Use, Residential Buildings, Climate Change Mitigation

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Socioeconomic Metabolism: Drivers of Resource Productivity

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 22 Nov 2023
Sónia Cunha, Edgar G. Hertwich and Paulo Cadete Ferrão
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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socioeconomic metabolism, material flow accounting, input-output tables, Sustainable development, resource productivity, Europe

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From Dry Fields to Empty Plates: Tracing Drought Exposure Across European Agriculture Supply Chains

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 08 Jul 2026
NILU, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) - Industrial Ecology Programme and NILU
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Agriculture, Drought, Supply Chain, Food Security, Climate Change