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Introduction
My research focuses on the systemic relations between energy, human time, materials, and economic development. For doing so, I has developed different analytical tools within the Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) accounting framework and applied these to different case studies. I’m interested in wicked sustainability problems and developing MuSIASEM to analise social practice inequalities.
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March 2012 - present
Education
September 2011 - September 2012
Field of study
- Environmental Studies: Ecological Economics and Environmental Management
September 2008 - February 2012
February 2002 - October 2008
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Publications (21)
The automotive industry plays a key economic and political role in developed countries due to its contribution to exports, employment and revenues. Fragmentation of production and offshoring have distributed manufacturing stages among EU national automotive industries. An energy metabolic perspective allows us to explain differences in performance...
Residential end-uses represent a significant share of final energy consumption and material stocks. However, approaching sustainability of the residential sector merely as an environmental technical problem is insufficient. Home is the center of daily life providing essential functions to people. Household metabolism is not a matter of the sum of i...
We show that shortage of human activity may represent an internal constraint to economic growth as relevant as external resource and sink constraints. Human time is required, both inside and outside the market, to produce and consume the goods and services needed to sustain societal metabolism. The time allocation profile is therefore an emergent p...
Poster based on paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346561195_The_international_division_of_labor_and_embodied_working_time_in_trade_for_the_US_the_EU_and_China
Most of the objects we consume are products of global production networks, where specific functions and manufacturing processes are performed in each region and a new internatio...
In sustainability analysis, human time is a crucial and overlooked societal limit. Some core countries overcome their time budgets and preserve their socio-economic structures by using energy and importing working time embodied in products and services. This paper analyses the roles of the United States, the European Union, and China in the interna...
With the expansion of the acceleration of the urbanization process, China experienced a corresponding high demand for energy, which led to significant changes in energy metabolic patterns. The application of the MultiScale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) approach facilitates the study of the factors that determin...
This paper presents a multiscale integrated analysis comparing changes in the energy metabolic pattern of China and the European Union between 2000 and 2016. The MuSIASEM method is used to explore and illustrate the entanglement over different factors, across dimensions and levels of analysis. Demographic factors observed at the level of the whole...
The strategy of energy efficiency to save energy is deceptively simple: the idea is to use less input for the highest amount of useful output. However, on a practical and conceptual level, efficiency is an ambiguous and problematic concept to implement. Of particular concern is the lack of contextual and qualitative information provided in energy e...
Energy intensity and resource productivity are widespread indicators of energy and material intensity in European institutions. However, they present important flaws when used to characterize the factors affecting the energy and material performance of an economy: they neglect the effects of the openness and differences in the structure of the econ...
The extreme degree of openness of contemporary urban systems with regard to both economy and population creates a serious challenge for the study of urban energy metabolism. A novel tool based on Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) is proposed to overcome these challenges. It consists of an end-use matrix...
Within the context of the controversial use of the concept energy intensity to assess national energy performance, this paper proposes an innovative accounting framework: the energy end-use matrix. This tool integrates quantitative assessments of energy use of the various constituent compartments of socio-economic systems. More specifically it iden...
This deliverable illustrates the analytical framework developed and used in MAGIC, that is,
Quantitative Story-Telling (QST) based on the accounting method Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM). The various documents composing this deliverable
are intended for use both within the consortium and beyond. As r...
Deliverable 4.2 is the second deliverable produced in the activities of Workpackage 4. In the previous deliverable (D4.1) we provided an analysis of the problematic use of concept of efficiency for characterizing the performance of the economic process. In D4.1 we suggested innovative solutions based on the concept of the multi-scale analysis of th...
Deliverable 4.1 (produced within the activities of Workpackage 4) focuses on the problematic use of concept of efficiency in the analysis of the performance of the economic process and explores possible solutions to be adopted to develop more effective methods to characterize the performance of the use of energy in modern economies. To achieve this...
