Global S&T Development Trend Analysis Platform of Resources and Environment
DOI | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.09.003 |
Resource recovery and low carbon transitions: The hidden impacts of substituting cement with imported 'waste' materials from coal and steel production | |
Millward-Hopkins, Joel1; Zwirner, Oliver1,3,4; Purnell, Phil2; Velis, Costas A.2; Iacovidou, Eleni2; Brown, Andrew3 | |
2018-11-01 | |
发表期刊 | GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS |
ISSN | 0959-3780 |
EISSN | 1872-9495 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 53页码:146-156 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | England; Scotland |
英文摘要 | Here we investigate the increasingly complex relationship between the resource recovery practices of the UK concrete industry and ongoing low-carbon transitions taking place in electricity and steel. Reductions in UK coal based electricity and primary steel production are reducing domestic availability of residues coal ash and steel slag that are used to replace cement in concrete; for decarbonisation purposes and to increase concrete quality. This is leading to an unusual mass-transportation of 'wastes' from the Global South to Global North. Focusing closely upon the mitigation pathways of concrete producers, we develop an inter-industry model of material flows, and a diversity of scenarios and sensitivity tests, to consider how resource recovery practices and carbon emissions of the three sectors may evolve. A continuation of domestic shortages in waste-derived cement substitutes appears inevitable and future international shortages possible. But even if foreign producers supplied enough cement substitutes to meet UK demand, the broader carbon implications of such trade may be far from benign. Using a revenue-based approach to allocate emissions to coal ash leads to a wide range of embodied carbon estimates from relatively low (0.15 t.CO2/t.ash) to exceeding that of traditional Portland cement (1 t.CO2/t.ash). However, the carbon associated with internationally traded recovered resources currently stands behind a 'double-blind' system of accounting: emissions do not register in the conventional territorial accounts of the importing country and they may be hidden from its consumption-based accounts as well. The impacts of such trade and related carbon accounting conventions are unclear and we emphasise the need for further investigation. To this end, our results demonstrate the importance of incorporating highly interconnected sectors and international trade into analyses of low-carbon transitions, and highlight the challenges this presents for designing appropriate policies, accounting frameworks, and interdisciplinary impact assessment methods that look beyond sectorial and national horizons. |
英文关键词 | Biomass Carbon accounting Coal ash Complex value Concrete Resource recovery Solid waste |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000455061900013 |
WOS关键词 | LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT ; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT ; STRUCTURAL NURTURE ; CIRCULAR ECONOMY ; EMBODIED CARBON ; FLY-ASH ; BIOMASS ; ALLOCATION ; CONCRETE ; ENERGY |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Geography |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geography |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/38344 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Leeds, Sustainabil Res Inst, Leeds LS2 9JT, W Yorkshire, England; 2.Univ Leeds, Sch Civil Engn, Leeds LS2 9JT, W Yorkshire, England; 3.Univ Leeds, Leeds Univ Business Sch, Econ Div, Leeds LS2 9JT, W Yorkshire, England; 4.James Hutton Inst, Social Econ & Geog Sci Grp, Aberdeen AB158QH, Scotland |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Millward-Hopkins, Joel,Zwirner, Oliver,Purnell, Phil,et al. Resource recovery and low carbon transitions: The hidden impacts of substituting cement with imported 'waste' materials from coal and steel production[J]. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,2018,53:146-156. |
APA | Millward-Hopkins, Joel,Zwirner, Oliver,Purnell, Phil,Velis, Costas A.,Iacovidou, Eleni,&Brown, Andrew.(2018).Resource recovery and low carbon transitions: The hidden impacts of substituting cement with imported 'waste' materials from coal and steel production.GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,53,146-156. |
MLA | Millward-Hopkins, Joel,et al."Resource recovery and low carbon transitions: The hidden impacts of substituting cement with imported 'waste' materials from coal and steel production".GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS 53(2018):146-156. |
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