Dr Julia Steinberger

Lecturer: Ecological Economics

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 31631
Email address: J.K.Steinberger@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 10.119

Biography

My research examines the connections between resource use (energy and materials, greenhouse gas emissions) and societal performance (economic and human wellbeing). I am interested in quantifying the current and historical linkages between resource use and socioeconomic parameters, and identifying alternative development pathways to guide the necessary transition to a low carbon society.

I am a member of the International Society of Ecological Economics and International Society of Industrial Ecology, where I am on the nominating committee. I have published in Ecological Economics, Energy Policy, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and Environmental Science & Technology.

Before joining SRI, I was a researcher at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna, and a postdoc at the universities of Lausanne and Zurich.

My undergraduate education was in mathematics and physics at Brown University. I hold a PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Areas for PhD supervision

I welcome queries on doctoral dissertation projects on topics such as:

Analysis, modeling and projections of production and consumption patterns at from local to international levels;

Studies of low carbon policy implementation efforts, especially those that integrate supply chain considerations.

Publications

Erb K; Mayer A; Krausmann F; Lauk C; Plutzar C; Steinberger JK; Haberl H (2012) The interrelations of future global bioenergy potentials, food demand and agricultural technology, In: Gasparatos A; Stromberg P (Ed) Socioeconomic and environmental impacts of biofuels: Evidence from developing nations, Cambridge University Press, pp.27-52.
Steinberger JK; Roberts JT; Peters GP; Baiocchi G (2012) Pathways of human development and carbon emissions embodied in trade, NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE, 2, pp.81-85. doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1371
Haberl H; Steinberger JK; Plutzar C; Erb K; Gaube V; Gingrich S; Krausmann F (2012) Natural and socioeconomic determinants of the embodied human appropriation of net primary production and its relation to other resource use indicators, Ecological Indicators, 23, pp.222-231.
Sahakian MD; Steinberger JK (2011) Energy Reduction Through a Deeper Understanding of Household Consumption Staying Cool in Metro Manila, JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY, 15, pp.31-48. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-9290.2010.00305.x
Gingrich S; Kuskova P; Steinberger JK (2011) Long-term changes in CO2 emissions in Austria and Czechoslovakia-Identifying the drivers of environmental pressures, ENERGY POLICY, 39, pp.535-543. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.10.006
Baynes T; Lenzen M; Steinberger JK; Bai X (2011) Comparison of household consumption and regional production approaches to assess urban energy use and implications for policy, ENERGY POLICY, 39, pp.7298-7309. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.08.053
Fischer-Kowalski M; Steinberger JK (2011) Social Metabolism and Hybrid Structures, JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY, 15, pp.642-644. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-9290.2011.00373.x
Steinberger JK; Krausmann F (2011) Material and Energy Productivity, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 45, pp.1169-1176. doi: 10.1021/es1028537
Haberl H; Erb K; Krausmann F; Bondeau A; Lauk C; Mueller C; Plutzar C; Steinberger JK (2011) Global bioenergy potentials from agricultural land in 2050: Sensitivity to climate change, diets and yields, BIOMASS & BIOENERGY, 35, pp.4753-4769. doi: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.04.035
Wiedenhofer D; Lenzen M; Steinberger JK (2011) Spatial and Socio-Economic Drivers of Direct and Indirect Household Energy Consumption in Australia, In: Newton PW (Ed) Urban Consumption, Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, pp.251-266.
Steinberger JK; Krausmann F; Eisenmenger N (2010) Global patterns of materials use: A socioeconomic and geophysical analysis, ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, 69, pp.1148-1158. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.12.009
Weisz H; Steinberger JK (2010) Reducing energy and material flows in cities, CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, 2, pp.185-192. doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2010.05.010
Kennedy C; Steinberger J; Gasson B; Hansen Y; Hillman T; Havranek M; Pataki D; Phdungsilp A; Ramaswami A; Villalba Mendez G (2010) Methodology for inventorying greenhouse gas emissions from global cities, ENERGY POLICY, 38, pp.4828-4837. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.08.050
Binder CR; Feola G; Steinberger JK (2010) Considering the normative, systemic and procedural dimensions in indicator-based sustainability assessments in agriculture, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW, 30, pp.71-81. doi: 10.1016/j.eiar.2009.06.002
Steinberger JK; Roberts JT (2010) From constraint to sufficiency The decoupling of energy and carbon from human needs, 1975-2005, ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, 70, pp.425-433. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.09.014
Steinberger JK; van Niel J; Bourg D (2009) Profiting from negawatts: Reducing absolute consumption and emissions through a performance-based energy economy, ENERGY POLICY, 37, pp.361-370. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2008.08.030
Steinberger JK; Friot D; Jolliet O; Erkman S (2009) A spatially explicit life cycle inventory of the global textile chain, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT, 14, pp.443-455. doi: 10.1007/s11367-009-0078-4
Kennedy C; Steinberger J; Gasson B; Hansen Y; Hillman T; Havranek M; Pataki D; Phdungsilp A; Ramaswami A; Villalba Mendez G (2009) Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 43, pp.7297-7302. doi: 10.1021/es900213p