Victor Maus, Stefan Giljum, Jakob Gutschlhofer, Sebastian Luckeneder & Mirko Lieber
We investigated six thousand active mining sites across the globe through visual interpretation of satellite images and found that that mining activities around the world occupy 57,277 km².
Maus, V., Giljum, S., Gutschlhofer, J., da Silva, D.M., Probst, M., Gass, S.L.B., Luckeneder, S., Lieber, M., MacCullum, I., 2020. A global-scale data set of mining areas. Nature Scientific Data (7), 289. Journal Link Missing information on land area used by global mining activities Our modern lifestyles and consumption patterns [...]
Mara Weiß, Stefan Giljum & Sebastian Luckeneder
In this Brief, we analysed around 300 mining conflicts in Latin America to find out which factors influence different conflict escalation stages.
Moran, D., Giljum, S., Kanemoto, K., Godar, J., 2020. From satellite to supply chain: new approaches connect earth observation to economic decisions. One Earth 3 (1), 5–8. Journal Link Need for fine-scale tools for economic decision-making Despite broad awareness of sustainability issues related to global supply chains, satisfactory data and [...]
Victor Maus & Stefan Giljum
In this Brief, we discuss the potentials of remote sensing data to analyse spatiotemporal patterns of resource extraction and impacts and present examples from the agricultural and mining sectors.
FINEPRINT @ IE Lab Conference 2020 Hanspeter Wieland from the FINEPRINT team joined the Industrial Ecology Virtual Laboratory (IELab) Conference 2020 that took place in Mount Victoria (New South Wales/Australia) from 3-5 of February. Developers and users of the IELab met for two days to widen community awareness and usage of [...]
Stephan Lutter & Stefan Giljum
Metal mining has an important impact on the local water availability and scarcity. In this Brief, we analyse the water use by the Chilean copper industry in 2018.
Wieland, H., Giljum, S., Eisenmenger, N., Wiedenhofer, D., Bruckner, M., Schaffartzik, A., Owen, A., 2019. Supply versus use designs of environmental extensions in input–output analysis: Conceptual and empirical implications for the case of energy. Journal of Industrial Ecology. PDF Journal Link Different ways of using energy data in input-output models [...]
Bruckner, M., Wood, R., Moran, Daniel, Kuschnig, N., Wieland, H., Maus, V., Börner, J., 2019. FABIO – The Construction of the Food and Agriculture Biomass Input–Output Model. Environmental Science & Technology 53, 11302-11312. PDF Journal Link Need for detailed and reliable traceability tools The increasing displacement of environmental impacts from [...]
FINEPRINT featured by European Space Agency The European Space Agency (ESA) is currently holding the Φ-week 2019 in Rome, focusing on Earth Observation Open Science and Future Earth Observation. In the context of this conference, ESA is featuring the FINEPRINT project in their website section on “Observing the Earth”, with an article [...]
