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  1. From Public to Private Governance, and Back—Eco‐Modulation as De‐Privatization in Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)

    Article • Regulation & Governance, October 2026, Wiley

    Reid Lifset, Harri Kalimo

  2. How extended producer responsibility policy shapes industry behaviour and materials design

    Article • Nature Reviews Materials, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Reid Lifset

  3. Assessing environmental impacts of digitalization: A special issue

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Reid Lifset

  4. Finding research papers on the environmental impact of AI

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2025, Elsevier

    Reid Lifset

  5. Status of public policy for material efficiency as a way to reduce GHG emissions

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, March 2024, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  6. Analysis of eco-modulation in extended producer responsibility

    Article • Waste Management, August 2023, Elsevier

    Reid Lifset

  7. Assessing Energy and Climate Effects of Digitalization: Methodological Challenges and Key Recommendations

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2023, Elsevier

    Reid Lifset

  8. Policy for Material Efficiency: Enabling New Climate Change Mitigation Strategies

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2023, Elsevier

    Reid Lifset

  9. Restoring the Incentives for Eco-Design in Extended Producer Responsibility: The Challenges for Eco-Modulation

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Reid Lifset

  10. Winners of the 2020 Graedel prizes: The Journal of Industrial Ecology best paper prizes

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, August 2021, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  11. Material efficiency for climate change mitigation

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, April 2021, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  12. Resource Efficiency and Climate Change

    Article • January 2021, United Nations Publications

    Reid Lifset

  13. Review of material efficiency policies for climate change mitigation

    Article • January 2021, United Nations Publications

    Reid Lifset

  14. Winners of the 2019 Graedel Prizes: The Journal of Industrial Ecology Best Paper Prizes

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, August 2020, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  15. Winners of the 2018 Graedel Prizes: The Journal of Industrial Ecology best paper prizes

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, September 2019, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  16. Introduction to special feature on "Taking the Circular Economy to the Next Level"

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, February 2019, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  17. Winners of the 2017 Graedel Prizes: The Journal of Industrial Ecology Best Paper Prizes

    Article • August 2018, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  18. Industrial Ecology

    Article • March 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Reid Lifset

  19. Increasing Transparency of Data Used in Industrial Ecology Research

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, January 2018, Wiley

    Reid Lifset, Dr Konstantin Stadler, Dr Niko Heeren

  20. Varieties of business models for post-consumer recycling in China

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, January 2018, Elsevier

    Reid Lifset

  21. Charting the Future of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Special Issue

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, November 2017, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  22. Winners of the 2016 Graedel Prizes: The Journal of Industrial Ecology Best Paper Prizes

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, November 2017, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  23. What is the relationship between3D printing and industrial ecology?

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, October 2017, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  24. Charting the Environmental Dimensions of Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, September 2017, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  25. Environmental Dimensions of Additive Manufacturing: Mapping Application Domains and Their Environmental Implications

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, August 2017, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  26. Taking the Circularity to the Next Level: A Special Issue on the Circular Economy

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, May 2017, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  27. Winners of the 2015 Graedel Prizes: TheJIEBest Paper Prizes

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, December 2016, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  28. 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.91023-7

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Reid Lifset

  29. Winners of the 2014 Graedel Prizes: TheJIEBest Paper Prizes

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, August 2015, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  30. Introducing First Winners of the Graedel Prize: The JIE Best Paper Prizes

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, March 2015, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  31. Complexity in Industrial Ecology: Models, Analysis, and Actions

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, March 2015, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  32. The Next Step in the Evolution of theJournal of Industrial Ecology: Online-Only Publication

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, February 2015, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  33. Industrial Ecology

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Reid Lifset

  34. Speaking Industrial Ecology

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, November 2014, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  35. What Roles for Which Stakeholders under Extended Producer Responsibility?

    Article • Asymmetric Alkylation of α-Alkyl-α-amino Acid Derivatives for the Synthesis of α α-Dialkyl-α-amino Acids, October 2014, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  36. Life Cycle Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, July 2014, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  37. Life Cycle Assessment

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, May 2014, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  38. Frontiers in Footprinting

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, January 2014, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  39. Open Access and theJournal of Industrial Ecology

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, November 2013, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  40. Op Ed -- Leveling the Playing Field: Making Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Available

    Article • Against the Grain, November 2013, Purdue University (bepress)

    Reid Lifset

  41. Extended Producer Responsibility

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, March 2013, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  42. Material efficiency in a multi-material world

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, January 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Reid Lifset

  43. Raising the Bar for Symbiosis, Life Cycle Assessment, and Material Flow Analysis Case Studies

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, January 2013, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  44. Implementing Individual Producer Responsibility for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment through Improved Financing

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, October 2012, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  45. Toward Meta-Analysis in Life Cycle Assessment

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, March 2012, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  46. Metal lost and found: Dissipative uses and releases of copper in the United States 1975–2000

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, February 2012, Elsevier

    Reid Lifset

  47. Indications of Progress

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, February 2012, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  48. Industrial Ecology: Business Management in a Material World

    Article • November 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Reid Lifset

  49. Role of Forest Products in the Global Carbon Cycle: From the Forest to Final Disposal

    Article • November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Reid Lifset

  50. Moving Beyond Eco-efficiency

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, September 2011, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  51. Teaching industrial ecology and environmental management in Second Life

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, July 2011, Elsevier

    Reid Lifset

  52. CrossCheck

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, May 2011, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  53. Setting Out and Sorting Out Boundaries in the Journal of Industrial Ecology

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, November 2010, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  54. Life-cycle assessment of biofuels, convergence and divergence

    Article • Biofuels, May 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Reid Lifset

  55. Waste Valorization, Loop-Closing, and Industrial Ecology

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, March 2010, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  56. The Least Publishable Unit

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, March 2010, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  57. Individual Producer Responsibility: A Review of Practical Approaches to Implementing Individual Producer Responsibility for the WEEE Directive

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Reid Lifset

  58. An Embarrassment of Riches

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, November 2009, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  59. Post Script to the Corn Ethanol Debate

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, October 2009, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  60. Assessing Corn Ethanol

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, August 2009, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  61. The Indirect Effects of Industrial Ecology

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, May 2009, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  62. Beyond the Green Bubble

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, January 2009, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  63. Industrial Ecology in the Age of Input-Output Analysis

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Reid Lifset

  64. Good News, Sad News, and More Transitions

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, August 2008, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  65. Producer Responsibility at a Turning Point?

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, April 2008, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  66. Cement, Yogurt, and Mercury

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, February 2008, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  67. Good News

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, February 2008, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  68. Reaching Out But Staying Connected

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, February 2008, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  69. Differing Approaches to Energy Flow Accounting

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, February 2008, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  70. Metamorphosis of the Journal of Industrial Ecology

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, February 2008, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  71. International copper flow network: A blockmodel analysis

    Article • Ecological Economics, March 2007, Elsevier

    Reid Lifset

  72. Dining at the Periodic Table:  Metals Concentrations as They Relate to Recycling

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, March 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Reid Lifset

  73. Recycling and incineration: Evaluating the choices, edited by Richard Dennison and John Ruston. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1990, 309 pp

    Article • Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, February 2007, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  74. Rush to Burn: Solving America's Garbage Crisis? by Newsday Staff. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1989, 252 pp. Price: $22.95 cloth, $14.95 paper

    Article • Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, February 2007, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  75. Facing America's trash: What next for municipal solid waste? U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. OTA-0-424. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989

    Article • Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, February 2007, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  76. Reaching Out But Staying Connected

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, January 2007, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  77. Industrial Ecology and Life Cycle Assessment: What´s the Use?

    Article • The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Reid Lifset

  78. Industrial Ecology and Public Policy

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, July 2005, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  79. The Multilevel Cycle of Anthropogenic Zinc

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, July 2005, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  80. Contemporary Anthropogenic Silver Cycle:  A Multilevel Analysis

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, June 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Reid Lifset

  81. Conserving Scholarly Resources

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, September 2004, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  82. Extended Producer Responsibility in China: Where Is "Best Practice"?

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, September 2004, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  83. Probing Metabolism

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, June 2004, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  84. Multilevel Cycle of Anthropogenic Copper

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, February 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Reid Lifset

  85. Where is all the zinc going: The stocks and flows project, Part 2

    Article • JOM, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Reid Lifset

  86. The copper cycles of European countries

    Article • Regional Environmental Change, December 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Reid Lifset

  87. The characterization of technological zinc cycles

    Article • Resources Conservation and Recycling, September 2003, Elsevier

    Reid Lifset

  88. Seven Years and Still Growing

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, March 2003, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  89. Can We Take the Concept of Individual Producer Responsibility from Theory to Practice?

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, March 2003, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  90. Industrial Ecology: Policy Potential and Research Needs

    Article • Environmental Engineering Science, January 2003, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Reid Lifset, Valerie M. Thomas

  91. Patterns and Paradoxes

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, December 2002, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  92. Where has all the copper gone: The stocks and flows project, part 1

    Article • JOM, October 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Reid Lifset

  93. The contemporary European copper cycle: The characterization of technological copper cycles

    Article • Ecological Economics, August 2002, Elsevier

    Reid Lifset

  94. Leveling the Playing Field.

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, June 2002, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  95. Closing the Loop and Honing Our Tools

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, September 2001, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  96. Trust, but Verify

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, March 2001, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  97. Save a Tree, Grow a Journal

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, March 2001, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  98. Moving from Products to Services

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, December 2000, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  99. FullAccounting

    Article • The Sciences, May 2000, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  100. Moving from Mass to What Matters

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, April 2000, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  101. Environmentally Conscious Engineering and Eco-Design. Industrial Ecology: Building a Framework for Eco-Design and Life Cycle Assessment.

    Article • Journal of The Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging, January 2000, Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging

    Reid Lifset

  102. Transitions and Appreciation

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, December 1999, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  103. Does Leasing Improve End of Product Life Management?

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, September 1999, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  104. A Lively and Productive Ferment

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, September 1999, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  105. Why Industrial Ecology?

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, December 1998, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  106. Getting the Goal Right: EPR and DfE

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, December 1998, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  107. Making Connections

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, September 1998, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  108. A Glimmer of Success EPR and the Electronic Data Log

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, September 1998, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  109. On Becoming an Industrial Ecologist

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, June 1998, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  110. Setting the Boundaries?

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, March 1998, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  111. A Metaphor, a Field, and a Journal

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, December 1997, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  112. Why Industrial Ecology?

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, October 1997, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  113. Examining the Industrial Ecology of a Renewable Resource

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, June 1997, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  114. Introduction to the Roundtable on the Industrial Ecology of Pulp and Paper

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, June 1997, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  115. Relating Industry to Ecology

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, March 1997, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  116. What's in a Name: Producer or Product Responsibility?

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, March 1997, Wiley

    Reid Lifset

  117. War on Waste: Can America Win Its Battle with Garbage?

    Article • Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, January 1992, JSTOR

    Reid Lifset

  118. The politics of risk assessment

    Article • Technology in Society, January 1986, Elsevier

    Reid Lifset

  119. Industrial ecology: goals and definitions

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Reid Lifset