Publications by Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis

Tipping points toward sustainability: The role of industrial ecology

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis

The discussion of tipping points (TPs) is getting increasing attention when addressing the climate and energy crisis. While industrial ecology (IE) has been playing a role in the climate and energy debates, it has so far fallen short of substantially addin ...

WILEY2025

Mapping operational and embodied emissions in relation to household and ownership profiles with bottom-up building stock analysis: The case of Vaud, Switzerland

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, Ankita Singhvi

We conducted a bottom-up, spatially explicit building stock analysis to examine the social and spatial heterogeneity of operational and embodied emissions of residential buildings in Canton Vaud, Switzerland. Variations emerged between locations, household ...

2025

Configurations for circularity? A scoping review of urban planning approaches in the circular economy literature

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, Ankita Singhvi

This thematic analysis explores how circular economy literature addresses the relationship between the urban circular economy, land use and urban planning. Our scoping review identifies three spatial transformation strategies to enable circularity: densifi ...

2025

Streamlining the regionalization of economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA): The case of swiss cantons

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, Nicole Sophie Wiedmann

Current levels of resource use and pollution emissions are responsible for the trespassing of most planetary boundaries. As such, operational and contextual analysis is needed to provide mitigation strategies and policies. This article aims to streamline E ...

ELSEVIER2023

The place of space in urban metabolism research: Towards a spatial turn? A review and future agenda

Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis

The concept of urban metabolism has been profusely used by various disciplines over the last and current century to describe different urban phenomena. One theme that appears to gain importance in the interdisciplinary field of urban metabolism is the spat ...

ELSEVIER2022

Data mining in the context of urban metabolism: A case study of Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, Nicole Sophie Wiedmann

The highest share of the global population lives in cities. The current configuration of the latter requires considerable amounts of resource flows causing the degradation of local and global ecosystems. To face the complexity of these challenges, scientis ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Ontology-Based Integration of Urban Sustainability Indicators

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, Emanuele Massaro

Cambridge University Press2021

Sustainability Issues in Urban Systems from a Metabolic Perspective

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Anna Pagani, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

Cambridge University Press2020

The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use

Franziska Meinherz, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis

Hosting more than half of the world population, cities are currently responsible for two thirds of the global energy use and three quarters of the global CO2 emissions related to energy use. As humanity becomes more urbanized, urban systems are becoming a ...

2019

Exploring the energy use drivers of 10 cities at microscale level

Franziska Meinherz, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

Cities are responsible for the predominant share of anthropogenic environmental pressures. Recently, consistent methodologies to measure the metabolism of cities have been developed in order to enhance comparability between case studies and enable cross-ci ...

Elsevier2017