Material flow accounting and analysis: A Valuable Tool for Analyses of Society-Nature Interrelationships by Hinterberger, Friedrich and Giljum, Stefan and Hammer, Mark (2003)

Material flow accounting and analysis: A Valuable Tool for Analyses of Society-Nature Interrelationships

Title

Material flow accounting and analysis: A Valuable Tool for Analyses of Society-Nature Interrelationships

Author(s)

Friedrich Hinterberger

Stefan Giljum

Mark Hammer

Year

2003

Type

Journal Article

Source

Vienna: Sustainable Europe Research Institute.(SERI Background Paper 2)

Abstract

This paper aims at summarizing methodological foundations and the state of the art in the rapidly emerging field of material flow accounting and analysis (MFA).

1. Introduction
2. Historical development of MFA
3. Methodological foundations
4. Categories of material flows
5. A general scheme for economy-wide MFA
6. Indicators derived from economy-wide MFA
7. The LCA-oriented method for calculating indirect material flows
8. The input-output based approach for calculating indirect flows
9. Main applications of economy-wide MFA
10. Shortcomings of the MFA approach
11. State of the art in economy-wide MFA
12. Selected empirical results
13. Extensions and further methodological development of MFA

Access

Open Access

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Material flow accounting and analysis: A Valuable Tool for Analyses of Society-Nature Interrelationships

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