Julia Sborz

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Is urban living more/less sustainable than rural living?

Besides carbon emissions, resource use may also be related to the degree of urbanisation. Consumption and income tend to be higher in urban areas, but does it mean urban areas are more resource-intensive?

In addition, the energy transition requires more critical materials. Will we reduce oil extraction and start extracting minerals from the sea? My research, supervised by Associate Professor Juudit Ottelin, focuses on understanding how material and carbon footprints relate in different urban levels.

Research

I study how urbanisation (or population density) affects (or not!) the carbon and material footprint of households in Europe :) To do so, I use Exiobase and Eurostat's Household Budget Survey (HBS). My methodology is based on Environmentally Extended Input-Output (EEIO), enriched with LCA and pricing data when necessary.

My work involves a lot of statistics (and R), data analysis, and observing the numbers behind (un)sustainable behaviour. I am particularly motivated to investigate sustainable justice and fair distribution of burdens and benefits, and what trade-offs/co-benefits we can find on our material dependency due to the energy transition (and the huge focus of sustainability on carbon emissions).

I look for collaboration opportunities involving MFA and material stocks per urban degree, plastic and fossil fuels use vs metal use, and the pricing-sustainability relation.

Industrial Ecology

Publications

Main Publications

Sborz, J., Kalbusch, A., & Henning, E. (2022). A Review on Domestic Hot Water Consumption in Social Housing. Water, 14(17), 2699. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14172699

Sborz, J., Cominato, C., Kalbusch, A., Henning, E. Hourly and daily domestic hot water consumption in social housing dwellings: an analysis in apartment buildings in Southern Brazil. Solar Energy, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2021.12.067

Cominato, C., Sborz, J., Kalbusch, A., & Henning, E. (2022). Water demand profile before and during COVID-19 pandemic in a Brazilian social housing complex. Heliyon, e10307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10307

Garcia, Janine; Sborz, Julia; Kalbusch, Andreza; Henning, Elisa. Analysis Of Brazilian Legislation Based on Water Efficiency Criteria of LEED and AQUA-HQE Certifications. Revista Gestão E Sustentabilidade Ambiental, V. 9, P. 224, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19177/rgsa.v9e02020224-236

Relevant presentations and posters

Marin, C. B.; Kuroshima, K.; Sborz, J. Massas De Água e Nutrientes Na Região Da Elevação De Rio Grande (Water masses and nutrients at the area of the Rio Grande Rise). In: Latin-American Congress for Marine Science (COLACMAR), 2017. Abstract available (Portuguese).

J. Sborz, W. B. Garcia, E. S. Watzko. Simulação de um Trocador de Calor e de um Reservatório Frio para Eficientização de um Sistema de Refrigeração de Água Tipo Bebedouro (Simulation of a heat exchanger and a cold-water reservoir to make a water refrigeration system of drinking fountain more efficient). IX Brazilian Conference on Thermodynamics – CBTermo 2017. Abstract available (Portuguese).

C. Da Silva, J. Sborz, D. A. Romero, and C. H. Amon, Predicting Phonon Transport in Twodimensional Boron Nitride-Graphene Superlattices. Full paper available. International Mechanical Engineering Congress (IMECE), 2014.

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Julia Sborz

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Research

Publications

Main Publications

Relevant presentations and posters