PUBLICATIONS

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Journal Articles

• Takuma Watari, Zhi Cao, Sho Hata, and Keisuke Nansai (2022)
  Efficient use of cement and concrete to reduce reliance on supply-side technologies for net-zero emissions
  Nature Communications, 13, 4158

• Ryosuke Yokoi, Takuma Watari, and Masaharu Motoshita (2022)
  Temporally explicit abiotic depletion potential (TADP) for mineral resource use based on future demand projections
  The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 1-12

• Ngoc Han Hoang, Tomonori Ishigaki, Takuma Watari, Masato Yamada, and Ken Kawamoto (2022)
  Current state of building demolition and potential for selective dismantling in Vietnam
  Waste Management, 149, 218-227

• Takuma Watari, Stephen Northey, Damien Giurco, Sho Hata, Ryosuke Yokoi, Keisuke Nansai, and Kenichi Nakajima (2022)
  Global copper cycles and greenhouse gas emissions in a 1.5 °C world
  Resource Conservation and Recycling, 179, 106118

• Ryosuke Yokoi, Takuma Watari, and Masaharu Motoshita (2022)
  Future greenhouse gas emissions from metal production: gaps and opportunities towards climate goals
  Energy and Environmental Science, 15, 146-157

• Takuma Watari, Keisuke Nansai and Kenichi Nakajima (2021)
  Contraction and convergence of in-use metal stocks to meet climate goals
  Global Environmental Change, 69, 102284

• Takuma Watari, Keisuke Nansai, Kenichi Nakajima, and Damien Giurco (2021)
  Sustainable energy transitions require enhanced resource governance
  Journal of Cleaner Production, 312, 20, 127698

• Takuma Watari and Ryosuke Yokoi (2021)
  International inequality in in-use metal stocks: What it portends for the future
  Resources Policy, 70, 101968

• Ryosuke Yokoi, Keisuke Nansai, Kenichi Nakajima, Takuma Watari and Masaharu Motoshita (2021)
  Responsibility of Consumers for Mining Capacity: Decomposition Analysis of Scarcity-weighted Metal Footprints in the Case of Japan
  iScience, 24, 1, 102025

• Takuma Watari, Keisuke Nansai and Kenichi Nakajima (2021)
  Major metals demand, supply, and environmental impacts to 2100: A critical review
  Resource Conservation and Recycling, 164, 105107

• Takuma Watari, Keisuke Nansai, Damien Giurco, Kenichi Nakajima, Benjamin McLellan and Christoph Helbig (2020)
  Global Metal Use Targets in Line with Climate Goals
  Environmental Science and Technology, 54(19), 12476-12483

• Takuma Watari, Keisuke Nansai and Kenichi Nakajima (2020)
  Review of critical metal dynamics to 2050 for 48 elements
  Resource Conservation and Recycling, 155, 104669

• Benjamin McLellan, Takuma Watari, Seiichi Ogata and Tetsuo Tezuka (2019)
  Resources-energy-development nexus and its implications for achieving the SDGs in Asia
  IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 136, 1

• Takuma Watari, Keisuke Nansai, Kenichi Nakajima, Benjamin McLellan, Elsa Dominish and Damien Giurco (2019)
  Integrating Circular Economy Strategies with Low-Carbon Scenarios: Lithium Use in Electric Vehicles
  Environmental Science and Technology, 53, 20, 11657-11665

• Takuma Watari, Benjamin McLellan, Damien Giurco, Elsa Dominish, Eiji Yamasue and Keisuke Nansai (2019)
  Total material requirement for the global energy transition to 2050: A focus on transport and electricity
  Resource Conservation and Recycling, 148, 91-103

• Takuma Watari, Benjamin McLellan, Seiichi Ogata and Tetsuo Tezuka (2018)
  Analysis of Potential for Critical Metal Resource Constraints in the International Energy Agency’s Long-Term Low-Carbon Energy Scenarios
  Minerals, 8(4), 156

Book Chapters

• Damien Giurco, Elsa Dominish, Nick Florin, Takuma Watari and Benjamin McLellan (2019)
  Requirements for Minerals and Metals for 100% RE Scenarios
  In Teske, S. (Eds) “Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals: Global and Regional 100% Renewable Energy Scenarios to achieve the Paris Agreement Goals with non-energy GHG pathways for +1.5℃ and +2.0℃”, Springer

Invited Lectures/Talks

• Takuma Watari “Bulk material cycles at national level in a zero-emission future“, 12th session of the ISIE SEM Online Perpetual Conference, 2022/7/21

• Takuma Watari “The availability of copper – a perspective from science“, 14th Copper Academy, 2022/6/30

• Takuma Watari “Critical material risks in the global energy transition“, 9th Japan-U.S. Bilateral Meeting on Rare Metals, 2022/3/10

• Takuma Watari “The role of critical minerals and resource governance in sustainable energy transitions“,
  Australia Japan Symposium: Critical minerals for climate change mitigation – Reducing risks in lithium supply chains, 2021/12/10

• Takuma Watari “Metal production, utilization, and recycling systems in a carbon-neutral world“,
  Metal Economics Research Institute, Japan, 2021/11/10

• Takuma Watari “The impact of carbon constraints on global metal cycles“,
  JX Nippon Research Institute for Technology & Strategy Co., 2021/10/11

• Takuma Watari “Contraction and convergence of metal stocks“,
  The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan, 2021/9/3

• Takuma Watari “Critical materials demand in the green transition: a review“,
  ISIE Socioeconomic Metabolism Section perpetual online conference, 2020/10/9

Dissertations

• Takuma Watari (2021) “Global Metal Cycles in a Carbon-Constrained World”, Doctoral Thesis

• Takuma Watari (2019) “Critical Metal Supply Risks in Low-Carbon Energy Transitions”, Master Thesis