Stefan Bringezu Author & Editor

Stefan Bringezu is Director of the Research Group on Material Flows and Resource Management at the Wuppertal Institute. He is a biologist by training (PhD, habilitation). He has worked on chemicals assessment, supply systems and environmental planning, lectured at several universities, initiated scientific networks (ConAccount, co-founder of ISIE), and pioneered on methods such as MFA and derived indicators. He is an Inaugural Member of the International Panel on Sustainable Resource Management. His main area of interest is the analysis of the socio-industrial metabolism and related land use and the instruments to sustain resource supply, use and waste management. Raimund Bleischwitz is Co-director of the Research Group on Material Flows and Resource Management at the Wuppertal Institute. An economist by training (PhD and habilitation), he also holds a professorship at the College of Europe, Bruges. His research interests include the socioeconomic analysis of resource management, incentive systems, market evolution, international environmental economics, EU and Japanese policies. He is regularly invited as a speaker to major conferences and seminars both in academic and professional circles. In the academic field, he has led a series of multi-country evaluation and study teams and has been involved in a number of projects at European and international level.