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Data Quality

6 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Analysis of High-Resolution Utility Data for Understanding Energy Use in Urban Systems: The Case of Los Angeles, California Pincetl, Stephanie and Graham, Robert and Murphy, Sinnott and Sivaraman, Deepak 2015
Towards Urban Resource Flow Estimates in Data Scarce Environments: The Case of African Cities Currie, Paul and Lay-Sleeper, Ethan and Fernandez, John E and Kim, Jenny and Musango, Josephine Kaviti 2015
Carbon emissions of infrastructure development Müller, Daniel B., and Gang Liu, and Løvik, Amund N., and Modaresi, Roja, and Pauliuk, Stefan, and Steinhoff, Franciska S., and Brattebø, Helge 2013
Material Flow Analysis of plastic products in Austria - Emphasis on data uncertainties in consumption sectors and solid waste management Feketitsch, Julia and Buchner, Hanno and Lederer, Jakob and Laner, David and Fellner, Johann 2013
Addressing sustainability in the aluminum industry: a critical review of life cycle assessments Gang Liu, and Müller, Daniel B. 2012
Aluminium Recycling - Raw material supply from a volume and quality constraint system Rombach, Georg, and Modaresi, Roja, and Muller, Daniel B. 2012

Decoupling

4 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Urban Economies Resource Productivity and Decoupling: Metabolism Trends of 1996--2011 in Sweden, Stockholm, and Gothenburg Kalmykova, Yuliya and Rosado, Leonardo and Patrício, João 2015
The role of in-use stocks in the social metabolism and in climate change mitigation Pauliuk, Stefan, and Müller, Daniel B. 2014
City-Level Decoupling: Urban resource flows and the governance of infrastructure transitions UNEP 2013
Re-estimating the decoupling effect: Is there an actual transition towards a less energy-intensive economy? Bithas, K. and Kalimeris, P. 2013

Direct Material Consumption (DMC)

10 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Comparing a territorial-based and a consumption-based approach to assess the local and global environmental performance of cities Aristide Athanassiadis and Maarten Christis and Philippe Bouillard and An Vercalsteren and Robert H. Crawford and Ahmed Z. Khan 2016
Material Flow Accounts and Driving Factors of Economic Growth in the Philippines Martinico-Perez, Marianne Faith G. and Fishman, Tomer and Okuoka, Keijiro and Tanikawa, Hiroki 2016
Urban metabolism profiles. An empirical analysis of the material flow characteristics of three metropolitan areas in Sweden Leonardo Rosado and Yuliya Kalmykova and João Patrício 2016
Study report. Accounting for material flows in Brittany, 2011 Arnaud Cochet and Frédéric Maymil and Samia Sediri 2015
Analysis of Egyptian Cities towards Sustainable Urban Metabolism Nourhan Magdy 2014
Urban Metabolism of Six Asian Cities Paulo Ferrao and João Fumega and Nuno Gomes and Samuel Niza and André Pina and Luis Santos 2014
Material flow accounting in an Irish city-region 1992-2002 Browne, David; O'Reagan, Bernadette; Moles, Richard 2011
Methodology and Indicators of Economy-wide Material Flow Accounting M. Fischer-Kowalski, F. Krausmann, S. Giljum, S. Lutter, A. Mayer, S. Bringezu, Y. Moriguchi, H. Sch¨utz, H. Schandl, and H. Weisz 2011
The Direct Material Inputs into Singapore's Development Schulz, Niels B. 2007
Material Flow Accounting in Amazonia: A Tool for Sustainable Development Amann, Christof and Bruckner, Willibald and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina and Grünbühel, Clemens 2002

Domestic extraction

6 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Comparing a territorial-based and a consumption-based approach to assess the local and global environmental performance of cities Aristide Athanassiadis and Maarten Christis and Philippe Bouillard and An Vercalsteren and Robert H. Crawford and Ahmed Z. Khan 2016
Linking Material Flow Analysis with Resilience Using Rice: A Case Study in Global, Visual MFA of a Key Food Product Michal Monit, André Pina, Paulo Ferrão 2016
Towards more comprehensive urban environmental assessments: exploring the complex relationship between urban and metabolic profiles Aristide Athanassiadis 2016
Urban metabolism profiles. An empirical analysis of the material flow characteristics of three metropolitan areas in Sweden Leonardo Rosado and Yuliya Kalmykova and João Patrício 2016
Comptes des flux de matières à l'échelle de l'économie 2008-2012 Guy Vandille 2014
Methodology and Indicators of Economy-wide Material Flow Accounting M. Fischer-Kowalski, F. Krausmann, S. Giljum, S. Lutter, A. Mayer, S. Bringezu, Y. Moriguchi, H. Sch¨utz, H. Schandl, and H. Weisz 2011

Dwellings

5 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
The role of in-use stocks in the social metabolism and in climate change mitigation Pauliuk, Stefan, and Müller, Daniel B. 2014
The role of in-use stocks in the social metabolism and in climate change mitigation Pauliuk, Stefan, and Müller, Daniel B. 2014
Carbon emissions of infrastructure development Müller, Daniel B., and Gang Liu, and Løvik, Amund N., and Modaresi, Roja, and Pauliuk, Stefan, and Steinhoff, Franciska S., and Brattebø, Helge 2013
Transforming the Norwegian Dwelling Stock to reach the 2 Degrees Celsius Climate Target Pauliuk, Stefan, and Sjöstrand, Karin, and Müller, Daniel B. 2013
Input, stocks and output flows of urban residential building system in Beijing city, China from 1949 to 2008 Hu, Dan; You, Fang; Zhao, Yanhua; Yuan, Ye; Liu, Tianxing; Cao, Aixin; Wang, Zhen; Zhang, Junlian 2010

Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP)

1 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: Patterns, Trends, and Planetary Boundaries. Helmut Haberl, Karl-Heinz Erb, Fridolin Krausmann 2014

Imports and Exports

12 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Comparing a territorial-based and a consumption-based approach to assess the local and global environmental performance of cities Aristide Athanassiadis and Maarten Christis and Philippe Bouillard and An Vercalsteren and Robert H. Crawford and Ahmed Z. Khan 2016
Linking Material Flow Analysis with Resilience Using Rice: A Case Study in Global, Visual MFA of a Key Food Product Michal Monit, André Pina, Paulo Ferrão 2016
Modeling of material and energy flows in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy using urban metabolism approaches Gabriela Fernandez, Igor Tereshchenko 2016
Towards more comprehensive urban environmental assessments: exploring the complex relationship between urban and metabolic profiles Aristide Athanassiadis 2016
Urban metabolism profiles. An empirical analysis of the material flow characteristics of three metropolitan areas in Sweden Leonardo Rosado and Yuliya Kalmykova and João Patrício 2016
Study report. Accounting for material flows in Brittany, 2011 Arnaud Cochet and Frédéric Maymil and Samia Sediri 2015
Comptes des flux de matières à l'échelle de l'économie 2008-2012 Guy Vandille 2014
Mapping the global journey of anthropogenic aluminium: a trade-linked multilevel material flow analysis Gang Liu, and Müller, Daniel B. 2013
The physical dimension of international trade, part 2: Indirect global resource flows between 1962 and 2005 Dittrich, Monika and Bringezu, Stefan and Schütz, Helmut 2012
How unequal is international trade? A biophysical perspective. Simron Singh and Nina Eisenmenger 2011
Methodology and Indicators of Economy-wide Material Flow Accounting M. Fischer-Kowalski, F. Krausmann, S. Giljum, S. Lutter, A. Mayer, S. Bringezu, Y. Moriguchi, H. Sch¨utz, H. Schandl, and H. Weisz 2011
The physical dimension of international trade: Part 1: Direct global flows between 1962 and 2005 Dittrich, Monika and Bringezu, Stefan 2010

Indicators - general

18 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Indicators of urban metabolism applied to the management of urban solid waste in the city of Tandil, Province of Buenos Aires Luciano Villalba, Roxana Banda Noriega, Rubén Donalisio, Beatriz Sosa, Adriana Díaz 2016
Indicators for sustainable cities Science for Environment Policy 2015
Social metabolism: a metrics for biophysical growth and degrowth Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Helmut Haberl 2015
Uncertainty in Material Flow Analysis Indicators at Different Spatial Levels Patrício, João and Kalmykova, Yuliya and Rosado, Leonardo and Lisovskaja, Vera 2015
Analysis of Egyptian Cities towards Sustainable Urban Metabolism Nourhan Magdy 2014
Developing a multi-layered indicator set for urban metabolism studies in megacities Kennedy, Chris and Stewart, Iain D. and Ibrahim, Nadine and Facchini, Angelo and Mele, Renata 2014
Measuring urban ecosystem functions through ‘Technomass'—A novel indicator to assess urban metabolism Inostroza, Luis 2014
Urban metabolism assessment tools for resource efficient urban infrastructure Robinson, Blake and Musango, Josephine and Swilling, Mark and Joss, Simon and Mentz Lagrange, Sasha 2013
The Ecological Footprint: Application in the Province of Tucumán Ricardo René Ferrari; Ana Isabel Dantur; Lucía Zarbá 2012
Towards a national circular economy indicator system in China: an evaluation and critical analysis Yong Geng and Jia Fu and Joseph Sarkis and Bing Xue 2012
Methodology and Indicators of Economy-wide Material Flow Accounting M. Fischer-Kowalski 2011
Methodology and Indicators of Economy-wide Material Flow Accounting M. Fischer-Kowalski, F. Krausmann, S. Giljum, S. Lutter, A. Mayer, S. Bringezu, Y. Moriguchi, H. Sch¨utz, H. Schandl, and H. Weisz 2011
Material Flow Indicators in the Czech Republic in Light of the Accession to the European Union Jan Kovanda 2010
Environmental Impact of the use of Natural Resources and Products van der Voet, Ester and van Oers, Lauran and de Bruyn, Sander and de Jong, Femke and Tukker, Arnold 2009
Calculation of the'Net Additions to Stock' Indicator for the Czech Republic Using a Direct Method Jan Kovanda 2007
Materials Flow Analysis and Emergy Evaluation of Taipei's Urban Construction Huang, Shu-Li and Hsu, Wan-Ling 2003
Rationale for and Interpretation of Economy-Wide Materials Flow Analysis and Derived Indicators Stefan Bringezu 2003
Dynamic substance flow analysis: the delaying mechanism of stocks, with the case of PVC in Sweden Kleijn, René; Huele, Ruben; van der Voet, Ester 2000

Informal

5 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
An urban metabolism approach to the water supply of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) Stephen Passmore 2016
Flows, system boundaries and the politics of urban metabolism: Waste management in Mexico City and Santiago de Chile Louise Guibrunet and Martin Sanzana Calvet and Vanesa Castán Broto 2016
Urban Metabolism and Quality of Life in Informal Areas Attia, Sahar; Khalil, Heba Allah E. 2015
From Eradication To Intervention: Urban Informal Ecosystem Royden-Turner, Shannon 2012
Key drivers of the e-waste recycling system: Assessing and modelling e-waste processing in the informal sector in Delhi Streicher-Porte, Martin and Widmer, Rolf and Jain, Amit and Bader, Hans-Peter and Scheidegger, Ruth and Kytzia, Susanne 2005

Policy

19 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Between theory and quantification: An integrated analysis of metabolic patterns of informal urban settlements Kovacic, Z. and Giampietro, M. 2017
Global Sustainable City-Regions: Mumbai, Shenzhen, Reykjavik, Portland, Budapest, Glasgow and Rotterdam Calzada, Igor 2016
Modeling of material and energy flows in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy using urban metabolism approaches Gabriela Fernandez, Igor Tereshchenko 2016
Resource consumption drivers and pathways to reduction: economy, policy and lifestyle impact on material flows at the national and urban scale Yuliya Kalmykova and Leonardo Rosado and João Patrício 2016
Dynamic material flow analysis for PCBs in the Norwegian building stock Bergsdal, Håvard, and Bratterbø, Helge, and Müller, Daniel B. 2014
Exploring urban mines: Pipe length and material stocks in urban water and wastewater networks Pauliuk, Stefan, and Govindarajan, Venkatesh, and Bratterbø, Helge, and Müller, Daniel B. 2014
Incorporating Bio-Physical Sciences into a Decision Support Tool for Sustainable Urban Planning Mitraka, Z. and Diamantakis, E. and Chrysoulakis, N. and Castro, E. A. and San Jose, R. and Gonzalez, A. and Blecic, I 2014
Stadtentwicklung im Nexus von Ressourcenschonung und Klimaschutz Müller, Daniel B., and et.al 2014
A Decision-Support System for Sustainable Urban Metabolism in Europe Ainhoa González and Alison Donnelly and Mike Jones and Nektarios Chrysoulakis and Myriam Lopes 2013
Carbon emissions of infrastructure development Müller, Daniel B., and Gang Liu, and Løvik, Amund N., and Modaresi, Roja, and Pauliuk, Stefan, and Steinhoff, Franciska S., and Brattebø, Helge 2013
Mapping the global journey of anthropogenic aluminium: a trade-linked multilevel material flow analysis Gang Liu, and Müller, Daniel B. 2013
Aluminium Recycling - Raw material supply from a volume and quality constraint system Rombach, Georg, and Modaresi, Roja, and Muller, Daniel B. 2012
Moving towards the circular economy - the role of stocks in the Chinese steel cycle Pauliuk, Stefan, and Wang, Tao, and Müller, Daniel B. 2012
Reconciling sectoral abatement strategies with global climate targets: The case of the Chinese passenger vehicle fleet Pauliuk, Stefan, and Dhaniati, Ni Made A., and Müller, Daniel B. 2012
The role of automobiles for the future of aluminium recycling Modaresi, Roja, and Müller, Daniel B. 2012
Unearthing potentials for decarbonizing the U.S. aluminium cycle Gang Liu, and Bangs, Colton E, and Müller, Daniel B. 2011
General aspects of sustainable urban development (SUD) Alessandro Costa 2008
Managing Materials for a Twenty-first Century Military Latiff, Robert, and Müller, Daniel B. 2008
Materials accounting as a tool for decision making in environmental policy (MAc TEmPo) Brunner, P.H. and Laner, T. and Lohm, U. and de Haes, U. and Desitler, M. and Baccini, P 1998

Raw Materials Equivalent (RME)

11 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Comparing a territorial-based and a consumption-based approach to assess the local and global environmental performance of cities Aristide Athanassiadis and Maarten Christis and Philippe Bouillard and An Vercalsteren and Robert H. Crawford and Ahmed Z. Khan 2016
What Drives Austrian Raw Material Consumption?: A Structural Decomposition Analysis for the Years 1995 to 2007 Wenzlik, Manuel and Eisenmenger, Nina and Schaffartzik, Anke 2015
Consumption-based Material Flow Accounting Schaffartzik, Anke and Eisenmenger, Nina and Krausmann, Fridolin and Weisz, Helga 2014
The importance of raw material equivalents in economy-wide material flow accounting and its policy dimension Jan Kovanda and Jan Weinzettel 2013
Total Material Requirement of Growing China: 1995--2008 Wang, Heming and Yue, Qiang and Lu, Zhongwu and Schuetz, Helmut and Bringezu, Stefan 2013
Materials embodied in international trade - Global material extraction and consumption between 1995 and 2005 Martin Bruckner and Stefan Giljum and Christian Lutz and Kirsten Svenja Wiebe 2012
Raw Material Consumption of the European Union - Concept, Calculation Method, and Results Karl Schoer and Jan Weinzettel and Jan Kovanda and Jürgen Giegrich and Christoph Lauwigi 2012
Structural Decomposition Analysis of Raw Material Consumption Jan Weinzettel and Jan Kovanda 2011
Assessing Socioeconomic Metabolism Through Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment Jan Weinzettel and Jan Kovanda 2009
The Raw Material Equivalents of International Trade Pablo Muñoz 2009
Using Total Material Requirement to Reduce the Global Environmental Burden Iñaki Arto 2009

Scaling

2 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Downscaling Aggregate Urban Metabolism Accounts to Local Districts Horta, Isabel M. and Keirstead, James 2017
Impact of the Economic Structure of Cities on Urban Scaling Factors: Implications for Urban Material and Energy Flows in China Ramaswami, Anu and Jiang, Daqian and Tong, Kangkang and Zhao, Jerry 2017

Slums and informal settlements

3 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Between theory and quantification: An integrated analysis of metabolic patterns of informal urban settlements Kovacic, Z. and Giampietro, M. 2017
Conceptualising slum in an urban African context Suzanne Smit and Josephine Musango and Zora Kovacic and Alan Brent 2017
Probing uncertainty levels of electrification in informal urban settlements: A case from South Africa Kovacic, Z. and Smit, S. and Musango, J.K. and Brent, A.C. and Giampietro, M. 2016

STAN

1 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Indicators of urban metabolism applied to the management of urban solid waste in the city of Tandil, Province of Buenos Aires Luciano Villalba, Roxana Banda Noriega, Rubén Donalisio, Beatriz Sosa, Adriana Díaz 2016

Transportation

9 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
A Hybrid Approach for Assessing the Multi-Scale Impacts of Urban Resource Use: Transportation in Phoenix, Arizona Clark, Susan Spierre and Chester, Mikhail V. 2017
Maintenance and Expansion: Modeling Material Stocks and Flows for Residential Buildings and Transportation Networks in the EU25 Wiedenhofer, Dominik and Steinberger, Julia K. and Eisenmenger, Nina and Haas, Willi 2015
The Spanish Transition to Industrial Metabolism: Long-Term Material Flow Analysis (1860-2010) Infante-Amate, Juan and Soto, David and Aguilera, Eduardo and García-Ruiz, Roberto and Guzmán, Gloria and Cid, Antonio and González de Molina, Manuel 2015
An integrated material metabolism model for stocks of urban road system in Beijing, China Guo, Zhen; Hu, Dan; Zhang, Fuhua; Huang, Guolong; Xiao, Qiang 2014
The role of in-use stocks in the social metabolism and in climate change mitigation Pauliuk, Stefan, and Müller, Daniel B. 2014
Centennial Evolution of Aluminum In-Use Stocks on Our Aluminized Planet Gang Liu, and Müller, Daniel B. 2013
The future of mobility and its critical raw materials Ziemann, Saskia, and Grunwald, Armin, and Schebek, Liselotte, and Müller, Daniel B., and Weil, Marcel 2013
Reconciling sectoral abatement strategies with global climate targets: The case of the Chinese passenger vehicle fleet Pauliuk, Stefan, and Dhaniati, Ni Made A., and Müller, Daniel B. 2012
The role of automobiles for the future of aluminium recycling Modaresi, Roja, and Müller, Daniel B. 2012

Uncertainty

14 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Probing uncertainty levels of electrification in informal urban settlements: A case from South Africa Kovacic, Z. and Smit, S. and Musango, J.K. and Brent, A.C. and Giampietro, M. 2016
The ferrous find: Counting iron and steel stocks in China's economy Wang, Tao, and Müller, Daniel B., and Hashimoto, Senji 2015
The global anthropogenic gallium system: Determinants of demand, supply, and efficiency improvement Løvik, Amund N., and Resrepo, Eliette, and Müller, Daniel B. 2015
Uncertainty in Material Flow Analysis Indicators at Different Spatial Levels Patrício, João and Kalmykova, Yuliya and Rosado, Leonardo and Lisovskaja, Vera 2015
Dynamic material flow analysis for PCBs in the Norwegian building stock Bergsdal, Håvard, and Bratterbø, Helge, and Müller, Daniel B. 2014
Systematic Evaluation of Uncertainty in Material Flow Analysis Laner, David and Rechberger, Helmut and Astrup, Thomas 2014
Uncertainty in Material Flow Analysis Rechberger, Helmut and Cencic, Oliver and Frühwirth, Rudolf 2014
Centennial Evolution of Aluminum In-Use Stocks on Our Aluminized Planet Gang Liu, and Müller, Daniel B. 2013
Material Flow Analysis of plastic products in Austria - Emphasis on data uncertainties in consumption sectors and solid waste management Feketitsch, Julia and Buchner, Hanno and Lederer, Jakob and Laner, David and Fellner, Johann 2013
Steel all over the world: Estimating in-use stocks of iron for 200 countries Pauliuk, Stefan, and Wang, Tao, and Müller, Daniel B. 2013
The Steel Scrap Age Pauliuk, Stefan, and Milford, Rachel L., and Müller, Daniel B., and Allwood, Julian M. 2013
Addressing sustainability in the aluminum industry: a critical review of life cycle assessments Gang Liu, and Müller, Daniel B. 2012
A handbook of industrial ecology Ayres, Robert U and Ayres, Leslie 2002
Data quality management for life cycle inventories—an example of using data quality indicators Weidema, Bo Pedersen and Wesnæs, Marianne Suhr 1996