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Metabolism Studies

Ecological Footprint Analysis

From Daniels and Moore (2001):

EFA was designed as a readily comprehended indicator of the sustainability of the human economy vis-a `-vis the Earth’s remaining “natural” capacity to supply resources (sometimes considered equivalent to the planet’s terrestrial “carrying capacity”). It groups and calculates material and energy requirements of nations (or regions) for a limited number of consumption functions, converts these metabolic flows into the ecologically productive land area required to produce the resources used in these activities, and compares the required areas to available regional, national, and global ecologically productive areas. Existing studies have typically been restricted to the ecological resource output potential of terrestrial areas

16 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Carbon footprints of 13 000 cities Moran, Daniel and Kanemoto, Keiichiro and Jiborn, Magnus and Wood, Richard and Többen, Johannes and Seto, Karen C 2018
Contributions of Local Farming to Urban Sustainability in the Northeast United States Goldstein, Benjamin P. and Hauschild, Michael Z. and Fernández, John E. and Birkved, Morten 2017
Urban Metabolism for Resource-Efficient Cities: from Theory to Implementation Josephine Kaviti Musango and Paul Currie and Blake Robinson 2017
An approach to the ecological footprint of Malargüe, Argentina Iturbe, Andrea; Guerrero, Elsa Marcela 2014
Estimation of the CO2 absorption footprint of the General Pueyrredón Partido (Argentina), 2010 María Cecilia Gareis and Rosana Fatima Ferraro 2013
Sustainable Urban Metabolism Ferrão, Paulo and Fernández, John E. 2013
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
Carbon Footprinting of Cities and Implications for Analysis of Urban Material and Energy Flows Anu Ramaswami, Abel Chavez, and Marian Chertow 2012
Comparison of energy flow accounting, energy flow metabolism ratio analysis and ecological footprinting as tools for measuring urban sustainability: A case-study of an Irish city-region Browne, David and O'Regan, Bernadette and Moles, Richard 2012
The Ecological Footprint: Application in the Province of Tucumán Ricardo René Ferrari; Ana Isabel Dantur; Lucía Zarbá 2012
Society, energy and materials: the contribution of urban metabolism studies to sustainable urban development issues Sabine Barles 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
Spatial indicator of urban metabolism. Ecological Footprint of the city of Tandil, Argentina Guerrero, Elsa Marcela and Guiñirgo, Fernando 2008
A material flow analysis and ecological footprint of York Barrett, John and Vallack, Harry and Jones, Andrew and Haq, Gary 2002
City Limits. A resource flow and ecological footprint analysis of Greater London Best Foot Forward 2002
An ecological footprint of Liverpool Barett, John and Scott, Anthony 2001

Economy-Wide Material Flow Analysis (EW MFA)

From Daniels and Moore (2001) (this paper describes "bulk internal flow material flow analysis", which we have here defined as Economy-Wide Material Flow Analysis):

The bulk internal flow material flow analysis (MFA-BIF) models developed as material flow balance models that focused on both material inputs and output flows and stock accumulations, induced by the entire societal metabolism of a given region. An essential principle is that of “materials balance” in order to derive consistent and balanced measures of material inputs and outputs across the economy-environment system boundary. The approach has also incorporated the identification and quantification of physical flows of “bulk” material categories within at least a limited number of subsystem components of the economic region under study. These studies may be considered as MFA-BIF. They lie between the TMRO approach and the highly disaggregated treatment of material inter- dependencies between sectors in physical input-output tables (hence, their occasional labeling as “bulk PIOTs”). The MFA-BIF approach aims to reveal the fundamental nature of economic system sources of flows and provides an overview of the structural nature of the material basis of economies.

140 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
A Database to Facilitate a Process-Oriented Approach to Urban Metabolism Ravalde, Tom and Keirstead, James 2017
Downscaling Aggregate Urban Metabolism Accounts to Local Districts Horta, Isabel M. and Keirstead, James 2017
Urban Metabolism for Resource-Efficient Cities: from Theory to Implementation Josephine Kaviti Musango and Paul Currie and Blake Robinson 2017
Urban metabolism: A review with reference to Cape Town Paul Klugman Currie and Josephine Kaviti Musango and Nhlanhla Desire May 2017
African Urbanization: Assimilating Urban Metabolism into Sustainability Discourse and Practice Currie, Paul Klugman and Musango, Josephine Kaviti 2016
Cape Town's Metabolism: Insights from a Material Flow Analysis Hoekman, Paul and von Blottnitz, Harro 2016
Changes of human time and land use pattern in one mega city's urban metabolism: a multi-scale integrated analysis of Shanghai Lu, Yangsiyu and Geng, Yong and Qian, Yiying and Han, Wenyi and McDowall, Will and Bleischwitz, Raimund 2016
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
Enhanced Performance of the Eurostat Method for Comprehensive Assessment of Urban Metabolism: A Material Flow Analysis of Amsterdam Voskamp, Ilse M. and Stremke, Sven and Spiller, Marc and Perrotti, Daniela and van der Hoek, Jan Peter and Rijnaarts, Huub H. M. 2016
Lisbon's womb: an approach to the city metabolism in the turn to the twentieth century Niza, Samuel and Ferreira, Daniela and Mourão, Joana and d'Almeida, Patrícia Bento and Marat-Mendes, Teresa 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
Material Flow Analysis in Quebec: Methods and operationalising challenges in a circular economy perspective Audrey Morris 2016
Modeling of material and energy flows in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy using urban metabolism approaches Gabriela Fernandez, Igor Tereshchenko 2016
Quantifying Impacts of Consumption Based Charge for Carbon Intensive Materials on Products Pauliuk, Stefan, and Neuhoff, Karsten, and Owen, Anne, and Wood, Richard 2016
Surveying the Environmental Footprint of Urban Food Consumption Goldstein, Benjamin and Birkved, Morten and Fernández, John and Hauschild, Michael 2016
Towards a circular economy... of proximity? ADEME and Mathieu DURAND and Jean-Baptiste BAHERS and Thomas BONIERBALE and Hélène BERAUD and Bruno BARROCA 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
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
Combined MFA and LCA approach to evaluate the metabolism of service polygons: A case study on a university campus Lopes Silva, Diogo Aparecido; de Oliveira, José Augusto; Saavedra, Yovana M.B.; Ometto, Aldo Roberto; Rieradevall i Pons, Joan; Gabarrell Durany, Xavier 2015
Complementary uses of Environmentally Extended Input Output Analysis and Material Flow Analysis to assess impacts Cooper, Samuel and Cabrera Serrenho, Andre and Owen, Anne 2015
Energy and material flows of megacities Kennedy, Christopher A. and Stewart, Iain and Facchini, Angelo and Cersosimo, Igor and Mele, Renata and Chen, Bin and Uda, Mariko and Kansal, Arun and Chiu, Anthony and Kim, Kwi-gon and Dubeux, Carolina and Lebre La Rovere, Emilio and Cunha, Bruno and Pin 2015
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
Mass, energy, and emergy analysis of the metabolism of Macao Kampeng Lei and Lu Liu and Dan Hu and Inchio Lou 2015
Material flow analysis applied to rare earth elements in Europe Guyonnet, Dominique and Planchon, Mariane and Rollat, Alain and Escalon, Victoire and Tuduri, Johann and Charles, Nicolas and Vaxelaire, Stéphane and Dubois, Didier and Fargier, Hélène 2015
Material Flow Analysis as a Decision Support Tool for Waste Management: A Literature Review Allesch, Astrid and Brunner, Paul H 2015
Study report. Accounting for material flows in Brittany, 2011 Arnaud Cochet and Frédéric Maymil and Samia Sediri 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
Toward Social Material Flow Analysis: On the Usefulness of Boundary Objects in Urban Mining Research Wallsten, Björn 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
Uncertainty in Material Flow Analysis Indicators at Different Spatial Levels Patrício, João and Kalmykova, Yuliya and Rosado, Leonardo and Lisovskaja, Vera 2015
Understanding Urban Metabolism: A Tool for Urban Planning Chrysoulakis, N. and Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. 2015
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
Urban Metabolism of Recycling and Reusing Food Waste: A Case Study in Taipei City Tseng, Wei-Lun and Chiueh, Pei-Te 2015
Urban metabolism: Measuring the city's contribution to sustainable development Leonardo S. Conke and Tainá L. Ferreira 2015
Urban-Scale Material Flow Analysis in a South African Context: A Cape Town Feasibility Study Paul Hoekman 2015
Analysis of Egyptian Cities towards Sustainable Urban Metabolism Nourhan Magdy 2014
Comptes des flux de matières à l'échelle de l'économie 2008-2012 Guy Vandille 2014
Concepts and methodologies for measuring the sustainability of cities Yetano Roche, María and Lechtenböhmer, Stefan and Fischedick, Manfred and Gröne, Marie-Christine and Xia, Chun and Dienst, Carmen 2014
Consumption-based Material Flow Accounting Schaffartzik, Anke and Eisenmenger, Nina and Krausmann, Fridolin and Weisz, Helga 2014
Global patterns of material flows and their socio-economic and environmental implications: a MFA study on all countries world-wide from 1980 to 2009 Giljum, Stefan and Dittrich, Monika and Lieber, Mirko and Lutter, Stephan 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
Island Waste Management Systems Eckelman, Matthew J and Ashton, Weslynne and Arakaki, Yuji and Hanaki, Keisuke and Nagashima, Shunsuke and Malone-Lee, Lai Choo 2014
Material Flow Analysis (MFA) for Liveable Cities Dexter V.L. Hunt; Joanne M. Leach; Susan E. Lee, Chris Bouch, Peter Braithwaite, Christopher D.F. Rogers 2014
Patterns of change in material use and material efficiency in the successor states of the former Soviet Union Schandl, Heinz and West, James and Krausmann, Fridolin and Kovanda, Jan and Hak, Tomas 2014
Resource Use in Small Island States Krausmann, Fridolin and Richter, Regina and Eisenmenger, Nina 2014
Spatial allocation of material flow analysis in residential developments: a case study of Kildare County, Ireland Roy, Manoj and Curry, Robin and Ellis, Geraint 2014
The global metabolic transition: Regional patterns and trends of global material flows, 1950--2010 Schaffartzik, Anke and Mayer, Andreas and Gingrich, Simone and Eisenmenger, Nina and Loy, Christian and Krausmann, Fridolin 2014
Urban material flow analysis: An approach for Bogotá, Colombia Alfonso Piña, William H. and Pardo Martínez, Clara Inés 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
Circular economy, industrial ecology. Elements of reflection at the Ile-de-France scale IAU (Institut d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme) 2013
Data Mining for Material Flow Analysis: Application in the Territorial Breakdown of French Regions Brinduşa Smaranda 2013
Development and dematerialization: An international study Steinberger, Julia K and Krausmann, Fridolin and Getzner, Michael and Schandl, Heinz and West, Jim 2013
Economy-wide Material Flow Accounts (EW-MFA) Compilation Guide 2013 EUROSTAT 2013
Industrial metabolism of PVC in China: A dynamic material flow analysis Zhou, Yucheng; Yang, Ning; Hu, Shanying 2013
Mapping the global flow of aluminum: From liquid aluminum to end-use goods Cullen, Jonathan M and Allwood, Julian M 2013
Mapping the global journey of anthropogenic aluminium: a trade-linked multilevel material flow analysis Gang Liu, and Müller, Daniel B. 2013
Material use and material efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean Schandl, Heinz and West, James 2013
Quantification of urban metabolism through coupling with the life cycle assessment framework: concept development and case study Goldstein, Benjamin Paul and Birkved, Morten and Quitzau, Maj-Britt and Hauschild, Michael 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
Stock dynamics and emission pathways of the global aluminium cycle Gang Liu, and Bangs, Colton E, and Müller, Daniel B. 2013
Sustainable Urban Metabolism Ferrão, Paulo and Fernández, John E. 2013
Sustainable urban metabolism as a link between bio-physical sciences and urban planning: The BRIDGE project Chrysoulakis, Nektarios and Lopes, Myriam and San José, Roberto and Betham Grimmond , Christine Susan and Jones , Mike B. and Magliulo , Vincenzo and Klostermann , Judith E.M. and Synnefa , Afroditi and Mitraka , Zina and Castro, Eduardo A. and González , Ainhoa and Vogt , Roland and Vesala , Timo and Spano , Donatella and Pigeon , Gregoire and Freer-Smith , Peter and Staszewski , Tomasz and Hodges , Nick and Mills , Gerald and Cartalis, Constantinos 2013
The importance of raw material equivalents in economy-wide material flow accounting and its policy dimension Jan Kovanda and Jan Weinzettel 2013
The physical structure of urban economies - comparative assessment Samuel Niza and André Pina and Daniela Ferreira and Luis Santos and Paulo Ferrão 2013
The Roles of Energy and Material Efficiency in Meeting Steel Industry CO2 Targets Milford, Rachel L., and Pauliuk, Stefan, and Allwood, Julian M., and Müller, Daniel B. 2013
The Steel Scrap Age Pauliuk, Stefan, and Milford, Rachel L., and Müller, Daniel B., and Allwood, Julian M. 2013
Total Material Requirement of Growing China: 1995--2008 Wang, Heming and Yue, Qiang and Lu, Zhongwu and Schuetz, Helmut and Bringezu, Stefan 2013
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
Urban metabolism: A review of research methodologies Yan Zhang 2013
Aluminium Recycling - Raw material supply from a volume and quality constraint system Rombach, Georg, and Modaresi, Roja, and Muller, Daniel B. 2012
Economy-wide Material Flow Accounts (EW-MFA) Compilation Guide 2012 EUROSTAT 2012
From Eradication To Intervention: Urban Informal Ecosystem Royden-Turner, Shannon 2012
India's Biophysical Economy, 1961 - 2008. Sustainability in a national and global context. Singh, Simron and Krausmann, Fridolin and Gingrich, Simone and Haberl, Helmut and Erb, Karl-Heinz and Lanz, Peter and Martinez-Alier, Joan and Temper, Leah 2012
Mainstreaming Urban Metabolism Kennedy, Christopher and Hoornweg, Daniel 2012
Mainstreaming Urban Metabolism: Advances And Challenges In City Participation Hoornweg, Daniel A. and Campillo, Gisela and Saldivar-Sali, Artessa N. and Linders, Dennis and Sugar, Lorraine 2012
Mapping the global flow of steel: From steelmaking to end-use goods Cullen, Jonathan M and Allwood, Julian M and Bambach, Margarita D 2012
Material flows and material productivity in China, Australia, and Japan Schandl, Heinz and West, James 2012
Metabolism of the Anthroposphere: Analysis, Evaluation, Design Peter Baccini and Paul Brunner 2012
Moving Toward the Circular Economy: The Role of Stocks in the Chinese Steel Cycle Pauliuk, Stefan and Wang, Tao and Müller, 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
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
The role of automobiles for the future of aluminium recycling Modaresi, Roja, and Müller, Daniel B. 2012
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 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
Socio-metabolic transitions in subsistence communities. Boserup Revisted Fischer-Kowalski, Marina and Singh, Simron J. and Ringhofer, Lisa and Grünbühel, Clemens M. and Lauk, Christian and Remesch, Alexander 2011
Structural Decomposition Analysis of Raw Material Consumption Jan Weinzettel and Jan Kovanda 2011
Unearthing potentials for decarbonizing the U.S. aluminium cycle Gang Liu, and Bangs, Colton E, and Müller, Daniel B. 2011
Urban Metabolism in China Achieving Dematerialization and Decarbonization in Suzhou Sai Liang and Tianzhu Zhang 2011
Global patterns of materials use: A socioeconomic and geophysical analysis Steinberger, Julia K and Krausmann, Fridolin and Eisenmenger, Nina 2010
Local Studies Manual: A researcher's guide for investigating the social metabolism of rural systems Singh, Simron J and Ringhofer, Lisa and Haas, Willi and Krausmann, Fridolin and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina 2010
Material flow accounting of an Indian village Bruno Kestemont and Marc Kerkhove 2010
Material Flow Indicators in the Czech Republic in Light of the Accession to the European Union Jan Kovanda 2010
Options for achieving a 50% cut in industrial carbon emissions by 2050 Allwood, Julian M and Cullen, Jonathan M and Milford, Rachel L 2010
Resource use and resource efficiency in the Asia-Pacific region Schandl, Heinz and West, Jim 2010
Resource use and resource efficiency in the Asia-Pacific region Schandl, Heinz and West, Jim 2010
Society, energy and materials: the contribution of urban metabolism studies to sustainable urban development issues Sabine Barles 2010
The physical dimension of international trade: Part 1: Direct global flows between 1962 and 2005 Dittrich, Monika and Bringezu, Stefan 2010
Assessing Socioeconomic Metabolism Through Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment Jan Weinzettel and Jan Kovanda 2009
Economy-wide Material Flow Accounts (EW-MFA) Compilation Guide 2009 EUROSTAT 2009
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
Evaluation of urban metabolism based on emergy synthesis: A case study for Beijing (China) Zhang, Yan and Yang, Zhifeng and Yu, Xiangyi 2009
Linking material and energy flow analyses and social theory Schiller, Frank 2009
Linking Waste and Material Flows on the Island of Oahu, Hawai'i: The Search for Sustainable Solutions Eckelman, Matthew and Chertow, Marian R 2009
Urban Metabolism of Paris and Its Region Sabine Barles 2009
Urban metabolism: Methodological Advances in Urban Material Flow Accounting Based on the Lisbon Case Study Niza, Samuel and Rosado, Leonardo and Ferrão, Paulo 2009
Using Material Flow Analysis to Illuminate Long-Term Waste Management Solutions in Oahu, Hawaii Eckelman, Matthew J and Chertow, Marian R 2009
Economy-wide material flow indicators in the Czech Republic: trends, decoupling analysis and uncertainties Kovanda, Jan and Hak, Tomas and Janacek, Jiri 2008
Metabolism of Neighborhoods Codoban, Natalia and Kennedy, Christopher 2008
Aspects of stocks and flows in the urban built environment of Cape Town Gasson, Barrie 2007
Calculation of the'Net Additions to Stock' Indicator for the Czech Republic Using a Direct Method Jan Kovanda 2007
Material Flows and Economic Growth in Developing China Ming XU and Tianzhu ZHANG 2007
Mesurer la performance écologique des villes et des territoires: le métabolisme de Paris et de l'Ile-de-France Barles, Sabine 2007
Economy-wide Material Flow Accounting "Guide for beginners" Eisenmenger, Nina and Haas, Willi and Krausmann, Fridolin and Schütz, Helmut and Weisz, Helga 2006
Material flow accounting of Spain Cañellas, Sílvia and González, Ana Citlalic and Puig, Ignasi and Russi, Daniela and Sendra, Cristina and Sojo, Amalia 2004
Trade, Materials Flows, and Economic Development in the South: The Example of Chile Stefan Giljum 2004
Environmental Relations and Biophysical Transitions: The Case of Trinket Island Singh, Simron J. and Grünbühel, Clemens M. 2003
Estimating the urban metabolism of Canadian cities: Greater Toronto Area case study Sahely, Halla R and Dudding, Shauna and Kennedy, Christopher A 2003
Material flow accounting and analysis: A Valuable Tool for Analyses of Society-Nature Interrelationships Hinterberger, Friedrich and Giljum, Stefan and Hammer, Mark 2003
Material Flow Analysis of the City of Hamburg Hammer, Mark and Giljum, Stefan and Hinterberger, Friedrich 2003
Materials Flow Accounting in Sweden Material Use for National Consumption and for Export Viveka Palm and Kristina Jonsson 2003
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
A handbook of industrial ecology Ayres, Robert U and Ayres, Leslie 2002
A material flow analysis and ecological footprint of York Barrett, John and Vallack, Harry and Jones, Andrew and Haq, Gary 2002
City Limits. A resource flow and ecological footprint analysis of Greater London Best Foot Forward 2002
Material Flow Accounting in Amazonia: A Tool for Sustainable Development Amann, Christof and Bruckner, Willibald and Fischer-Kowalski, Marina and Grünbühel, Clemens 2002
Material Flow Accounting of Greater London Bongardt, Benjamin 2002
Material use in the European Union 1980-2000: indicators and analysis Eurostat 2002
Economy-wide material flow accounts and derived indicators: a methodological guide Eurostat 2001
Escalating trends in the urban metabolism of Hong Kong: 1971-1997 Warren-Rhodes, Kimberley and Koenig, Albert 2001
Social Metabolism and Labour in a Local Context: Changing Environmental Relations on Trinket Island Singh, Simron Jit and Grünbühel, Clemens M. and Schandl, Heinz and Schulz, Niels 2001
Material flow analysis: A tool to support environmental policy decision making. Case-studies on the city of Vienna and the Swiss lowlands Hendriks, Carolyn and Obernosterer, Richard and Müller, Daniel and Kytzia, Susanne and Baccini, Peter and Brunner, Paul H 2000
Materials Flow Analysis of the Italian Economy de Marco, Ottilia 2000
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
Material Flow Accounting and Information for Environmental Policies in the City of Stockholm Burström, Fredrik and Brandt, Nils and Frostell, Björn and Mohlander, Ulf 1997
Resource flows: the material basis of industrial economies Adriaanse, Albert and Bringezu, Stefan and Hammond, Allen and Moriguchi, Yuichi and Rodenburg, Eric and Rogich, Donald and Schütz, Helmut 1997
The metabolism of a city: the case of Hong Kong Newcombe, Ken and Kalma, Jetse D and Aston, Alan R 1978
Production, consumption, and externalities Ayres, Robert U and Kneese, Allen V 1969

Emergy analysis

8 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
An evaluation of the urban metabolism of Macao from 2003 to 2013 Kampeng Lei and Lu Liu and Inchio Lou 2016
Concepts and methodologies for measuring the sustainability of cities Yetano Roche, María and Lechtenböhmer, Stefan and Fischedick, Manfred and Gröne, Marie-Christine and Xia, Chun and Dienst, Carmen 2014
Materials Flow Analysis and Emergy Evaluation of Taipei's Urban Construction Huang, Shu-Li and Hsu, Wan-Ling 2003
Materials Flow Analysis and Emergy Evaluation of Taipei's Urban Construction Huang, Shu-Li and Hsu, Wan-Ling 2003
Materials Flow Analysis and Emergy Evaluation of Taipei's Urban Construction Huang, Shu-Li and Hsu, Wan-Ling 2003
Materials Flow Analysis and Emergy Evaluation of Taipei's Urban Construction Huang, Shu-Li and Hsu, Wan-Ling 2003
Materials Flow Analysis and Emergy Evaluation of Taipei's Urban Construction Huang, Shu-Li and Hsu, Wan-Ling 2003
Materials Flow Analysis and Emergy Evaluation of Taipei's Urban Construction Huang, Shu-Li and Hsu, Wan-Ling 2003

Geographic Information System (GIS)

5 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
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
GIS and Urban Mining Zhu, Xuan 2014
Urban Mining potential in local power grids: Hibernating copper and aluminium in Linköping Andersson, Simon 2013
Global mapping of Al, Cu, Fe, and Zn in-use stocks and in-ground resources J.N. Rauch 2009
In-Use Stocks of Metals: Status and Implications M. Gerst and T.E. Graedel 2008

Industrial Symbiosis

0 publications found.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

From Daniels and Moore (2001):

Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is an environmental management tool for identifying (and comparing) the whole life cycle, or cradle-to-grave, environmental impacts of the creation, marketing, transport and distribution, operation, and disposal of specific human artifacts. The approach is intrinsically holistic in nature and considers direct and, ideally, related processes and hidden, nonmarket flows of raw materials and intermediate inputs, and waste and other material and energy outputs associated with the entire existence or “product chain” or “system” (Guinee et al. 1993). The LCA procedure often involves a comparison of a small number of substitutable products assumed to provide a similar consumption service.

21 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
The Life Cycle Assessment of an Energy-Positive Peri-Urban Residence in a Tropical Regime Bukoski, Jacob J. and Chaiwiwatworakul, Pipat and Gheewala, Shabbir H. 2017
Urban Metabolism for Resource-Efficient Cities: from Theory to Implementation Josephine Kaviti Musango and Paul Currie and Blake Robinson 2017
A political-industrial ecology of water supply infrastructure for Los Angeles Cousins, Joshua J. and Newell, Joshua P. 2015
Combined MFA and LCA approach to evaluate the metabolism of service polygons: A case study on a university campus Lopes Silva, Diogo Aparecido; de Oliveira, José Augusto; Saavedra, Yovana M.B.; Ometto, Aldo Roberto; Rieradevall i Pons, Joan; Gabarrell Durany, Xavier 2015
Dynamic Models of Fixed Capital Stocks and Their Application in Industrial Ecology Pauliuk, Stefan and Wood, Richard and Hertwich, Edgar G. 2014
Quantification of urban metabolism through coupling with the life cycle assessment framework: concept development and case study Goldstein, Benjamin Paul and Birkved, Morten and Quitzau, Maj-Britt and Hauschild, Michael 2013
Sustainable Urban Metabolism Ferrão, Paulo and Fernández, John E. 2013
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
Addressing sustainability in the aluminum industry: a critical review of life cycle assessments Gang Liu, and Müller, Daniel B. 2012
Assessment of Environmental Impacts of an Aging and Stagnating Water Supply Pipeline Network G. Venkatesh and Helge Brattebø 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
Combined MFA-LCA for Analysis of Wastewater Pipeline Networks G. Venkatesh 2009
Dematerialization: Not Just a Matter of Weight van der Voet, Ester 2004
Postconsumption Sewage Treatment in Environmental Systems Analysis of Foods Ulf Sonesson 2004
Material flow accounting and analysis: A Valuable Tool for Analyses of Society-Nature Interrelationships Hinterberger, Friedrich and Giljum, Stefan and Hammer, Mark 2003
A handbook of industrial ecology Ayres, Robert U and Ayres, Leslie 2002
Full Mode and Attribution Mode in Environmental Analysis Helias Udo de Haes 2000
A Systems Approach to Materials Flow in Sustainable Cities: A Case Study of Paper Leach, Matthew A. and Bauen, Ausilio and Lucas, Nigel J. D. 1997
Data quality management for life cycle inventories—an example of using data quality indicators Weidema, Bo Pedersen and Wesnæs, Marianne Suhr 1996

Material Intensity per Unit Service (MIPS)

From Daniels and Moore (2001):

Material intensity per unit service (MIPS) involves the identification of a single mass-based measure of the total, life-cycle-wide (or cradle-to-grave) primary material and energy requirement of environmentally significant economic output in the form of specific products, or forms of infrastructure or service delivery. Examples include newspaper, orange juice, an automobile, a prestressed concrete power pole, and alternative transport modes. A characteristic emphasis of MIPS is the linking of required inputs to goods as “functional units” providing end-user service “units” or “utilizations” (e.g., the passenger-kilometers yielded by an automobile). The final MIPS measure is expressed as the ratio of the mass of material and energy inputs to physical (and sometimes monetary) measures of services provided as benefits to people. The result is a material “intensity” involved in the provision a specified level of service of the system under study and represents a measure of the anthropogenic ecological or environmental impact intensity of selected forms of economic output. The geographic extent of measured flows induced by the product under study is typically global in nature and takes a life-cycle perspective with the explicit goal of capturing the full “ecological rucksack” associated with the production, consumption, disposal, and possible recycling and reuse of the product and its components.

1 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Applying Material Flow Accounting: Ecoauditing and Resource Management at the Kambium Furniture Workshop Christa Liedtke 1998

Material Stock Analysis

52 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Towards a more circular construction sector: Estimating and spatialising current and future non-structural material replacement flows to maintain urban building stocks André Stephan and Aristide Athanassiadis 2018
Material flow analysis of the residential building stock at the city of Rio de Janeiro Condeixa, Karina and Haddad, Assed and Boer, Dieter 2017
Prospecting the Urban Mine of Amsterdam Ester van der Voet, Ruben Huele, Alexander Koutamanis, Boukje van Reijn, Ellen van Bueren, Job Spiering,Tom Demeyer, Gerard Roemers, Merlijn Blok 2017
Quantifying and mapping embodied environmental requirements of urban building stocks Stephan, André and Athanassiadis, Aristide 2017
GIS‐based Analysis of Vienna's Material Stock in Buildings Kleemann, Fritz and Lederer, Jakob and Rechberger, Helmut and Fellner, Johann 2016
Mapping the anthropogenic stock in Germany: Metabolic evidence for a circular economy Georg Schiller and Felix Müller and Regine Ortlepp 2016
Modeling of material and energy flows in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy using urban metabolism approaches Gabriela Fernandez, Igor Tereshchenko 2016
Monitoring Urban Copper Flows in Stockholm, Sweden: Implications of Changes Over Time Amneklev, Jennie and Augustsson, Anna and Sörme, Louise and Bergbäck, Bo 2016
Stochastic Analysis and Forecasts of the Patterns of Speed, Acceleration, and Levels of Material Stock Accumulation in Society Tomer Fishman and Heinz Schandl and Hiroki Tanikawa 2016
Studying construction materials flows and stock: A review Vincent Augiseau and Sabine Barles 2016
Towards more comprehensive urban environmental assessments: exploring the complex relationship between urban and metabolic profiles Aristide Athanassiadis 2016
In-use product stocks link manufactured capital to natural capital Wei-Qiang Chen and T.E. Graedal 2015
The ferrous find: Counting iron and steel stocks in China's economy Wang, Tao, and Müller, Daniel B., and Hashimoto, Senji 2015
The socio-economic drivers of material stock accumulation in Japan's prefectures Fishman, Tomer and Schandl, Heinz and Tanikawa, Hiroki 2015
The weight of society over time and space: a comprehensive account of the construction material stock of Japan, 1945-2010 Tanikawa, Hiroki and Fishman, Tomer and Okuoka, Keijiro and Sugimoto, Kenji 2015
Accounting for the Material Stock of Nations Fishman, Tomer and Schandl, Heinz and Tanikawa, Hiroki and Walker, Paul and Krausmann, Fridolin 2014
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
Component- and alloy-specific modeling for evaluating aluminium recycling strategies for vehicles Modarsi, Roja, and Løvik, Amund N., 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
GIS and Urban Mining Zhu, Xuan 2014
Measuring urban ecosystem functions through ‘Technomass'—A novel indicator to assess urban metabolism Inostroza, Luis 2014
The Copper Balance of Cities Kral, Ulrich and Lin, Chih-Yi and Kellner, Katharina and Ma, Hwong-wen and Brunner, Paul H. 2014
The role of in-use stocks in the social metabolism and in climate change mitigation Pauliuk, Stefan, and Müller, Daniel B. 2014
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 future of mobility and its critical raw materials Ziemann, Saskia, and Grunwald, Armin, and Schebek, Liselotte, and Müller, Daniel B., and Weil, Marcel 2013
Urban Mining potential in local power grids: Hibernating copper and aluminium in Linköping Andersson, Simon 2013
Metabolism of the Anthroposphere: Analysis, Evaluation, Design Peter Baccini and Paul Brunner 2012
Global Rare Earth In-Use Stocks in NdFeB Permanent Magnets Du, Xiaoyue and Graedel, T. E. 2011
Patterns of Iron Use in Societal Evolution Müller, Daniel B. and Wang, Tao and Duval, Benjamin 2011
Urban mining: hibernating copper stocks in local power grids Krook, Joakim; Carlsson, Annica; Eklund, Mats; Frändegård, Per; Svensson, Niclas 2011
Dynamic Material Flow Analysis for Strategic Construction and Demolition Waste Management in Beijing Hu, Mingming; van der Voet, Ester; Huppes, Gjalt 2010
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
Metal Stocks in Society: Scientific Synthesis Graedel, TE 2010
Aluminum Stock and Flows in U.S. Passenger Vehicles and Implications for Energy Use Lynette Cheah 2009
Global mapping of Al, Cu, Fe, and Zn in-use stocks and in-ground resources J.N. Rauch 2009
Lead In-Use Stock Mao, Jiansu and Graedel, T. E. 2009
Dynamic Modeling of In-Use Cement Stocks in the United States Amit Kapur 2008
In-Use Stocks of Metals: Status and Implications M. Gerst and T.E. Graedel 2008
Calculation of the'Net Additions to Stock' Indicator for the Czech Republic Using a Direct Method Jan Kovanda 2007
Copper and zinc recycling in Australia: potential quantities and policy options D. van Beers, A. Kapur, T.E. Graedel 2007
Copper In-Use Stock and Copper Scrap in the State of Connecticut, USA J. Rauch, M. Eckelman, R. Gordon 2007
Dynamic material flow analysis for Norway's dwelling stock Bergsdal, Håvard and Brattebø, Helge and Bohne, Rolf A. and Müller, Daniel B. 2007
Metal capital sustaining a North American city: Iron and copper in New Haven, CT Konstantine Drakonakis, Katherine Rostkowski, Jason Rauch, T.E. Graedel, R.B. Gordon 2007
Spatial characterisation of multi-level in-use copper and zinc stocks in Australia D. van Beers and Thomas E. Graedel 2007
The Application of Material Flow Analysis for the Evaluation of the Recovery Potential of Secondary Metals in Australia D. van Beers, R. van Berkel, T.E. Graedel 2005
Future Redistribution of Cadmium to Arable Swedish Soils: A Substance Stock Analysis Sten Karlsson 2004
The Magnitude and Spatial Distribution of In-Use Zinc Stocks in Cape Town, South Africa D. van Beers and T.E. Graedel 2004
Visualization of Regional Material Flow using Over-flow Potential Maps Tanikawa, Hiroki; Sakamoto, Tetsunori; Hashimoto, Seiji; Moriguchi, Yuichi 2004
The magnitude and spatial distribution of in-use copper stocks in Cape Town, South Africa Van Beers, D and Graedel, TE 2003
Estimation of Material Stock in Urban Civil Infrastructures and Buildings for the Prediction of Waste Generation Tanikawa, Hiroki; Hashimoto, Seiji; Moriguchi, Yuichi 2002
Predicting future emissions based on characteristics of stocks van der Voet, Ester; Kleijn, René; Huele, Ruben; Ishikawa, Masanobu; Verkuijlen, Evert 2002
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

Multi-region Input-Output Analysis

5 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
An Urban Metabolism and Carbon Footprint Analysis of the Jing-Jin-Ji Regional Agglomeration Zheng, Hongmei and Fath, Brian D. and Zhang, Yan 2017
City Carbon Footprint Networks Chen, Guangwu and Wiedmann, Thomas and Hadjikakou, Michalis and Rowley, Haze 2016
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
Transnational city carbon footprint networks - Exploring carbon links between Australian and Chinese cities Guangwu Chen and Thomas Wiedmann and Yafei Wang and Michalis Hadjikakou 2016
Urban carbon transformations: unravelling spatial and inter-sectoral linkages for key city industries based on multi-region input-output analysis Guangwu Chen and Michalis Hadjikakou and Thomas Wiedmann 2016

Physical input-output tables (PIOT) / Input-Output Assessment (IOA)

From Daniels and Moore (2001):

Physical input-output tables (PIOT) allow national-level analysis that extends upon conventional input-output methodology and classifications to incorporate environmental resource and waste output “sectors” to provide measures of the physical flow of materials and goods within the economic system and between the economic system and the natural environment. This approach involves the exhaustive physical coverage of the movement (origins and uses) of most environmentally relevant materials induced by an economic region (sometimes disaggregated to the level of elements or simple chemical compounds). The PIOT method traces how natural resources enter, are processed, and subsequently as commodities, are moved around the economy, used, and finally returned to the natural environment in the form of residuals. It undertakes the detailed investigation of intersectoral physical flows of environmental resources inputs and commodity weights and residuals, and given this intersectoral specification and transactions matrix structure, has the ability to evaluate the cumulative environmental burden (total direct and indirect effect material requirements and pressures) of private consumption and other final demand for the products of different industries.

38 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Urban Metabolism for Resource-Efficient Cities: from Theory to Implementation Josephine Kaviti Musango and Paul Currie and Blake Robinson 2017
The Energy Structure of the Canadian Economy Kennedy, Christopher A. and Bachmann, Christian 2016
Urban carbon transformations: unravelling spatial and inter-sectoral linkages for key city industries based on multi-region input-output analysis Guangwu Chen and Michalis Hadjikakou and Thomas Wiedmann 2016
Complementary uses of Environmentally Extended Input Output Analysis and Material Flow Analysis to assess impacts Cooper, Samuel and Cabrera Serrenho, Andre and Owen, Anne 2015
Urban energy consumption: Different insights from energy flow analysis, input-output analysis and ecological network analysis Shaoqing Chen and Bin Chen 2015
Comparing the GTAP-MRIO and WIOD Databases for Carbon Footprint Analysis Arto, Iñaki and Rueda-Cantuche, José M. and Peters, Glen P. 2014
Dynamic material flow analysis for PCBs in the Norwegian building stock Bergsdal, Håvard, and Bratterbø, Helge, and Müller, Daniel B. 2014
Dynamic Models of Fixed Capital Stocks and Their Application in Industrial Ecology Pauliuk, Stefan and Wood, Richard and Hertwich, Edgar G. 2014
Ecological network analysis of an urban metabolic system based on input-output tables: Model development and case study for Beijing Zhang, Yan and Zheng, Hongmei and Fath, Brian D. and Liu, Hong and Yang, Zhifeng and Liu, Gengyuan and Su, Meirong 2014
The Global Resource Footprint of Nations Arnold Tukker and Tatyana Bulavskaya and Stefan Giljum and Arjan de Koning and Stephan Lutter and Moana Simas and Konstantin Stadler and Richard Wood 2014
An input-output approach to evaluate the water footprint and virtual water trade of Beijing, China Ziyuan Wang and Kai Huang and Shunshun Yang and Yajuan Yu 2013
Investigating Reasons for Differences in the Results of Environmental, Physical, and Hybrid Input-Output Models Sai Liang and Tianzhu Zhang 2013
Sustainable Urban Metabolism Ferrão, Paulo and Fernández, John E. 2013
The importance of raw material equivalents in economy-wide material flow accounting and its policy dimension Jan Kovanda and Jan Weinzettel 2013
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
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
Analyses of water footprint of Beijing in an interregional input-output framework Zhuoying Zhang and Hong Yang and Minjun Shi 2011
Data Acquisition for Applying Physical Input-Output Tables in Chinese Cities Sai Liang and Tianzhu Zhang 2011
Structural Decomposition Analysis of Raw Material Consumption Jan Weinzettel and Jan Kovanda 2011
Evaluation of the Tire Industry of China based on Physical Input–Output Analysis Yang, Ning 2010
A Material History of Australia Richard Wood 2009
Analysis of water consumption using a regional input-output model: Model development and application to Zhangye City, Northwestern China Y. Wang and H.L. Xiao and M.F. Lu 2009
Analyzing Polyvinyl Chloride in Japan With the Waste Input−Output Material Flow Analysis Model Shinichiro Nakamura 2009
Assessing Socioeconomic Metabolism Through Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment Jan Weinzettel and Jan Kovanda 2009
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
Hybrid input-output analysis of wastewater treatment and environmental impacts: A case study for the Tokyo Metropolis Chen Lin 2009
The Raw Material Equivalents of International Trade Pablo Muñoz 2009
Towards a global multi-regional environmentally extended input-output database Tukker, Arnold and Poliakov, Evgueni and Heijungs, Reinout and Hawkins, Troy and Neuwahl, Frederik and Rueda-Cantuche, José M. and Giljum, Stefan and Moll, Stephan and Oosterhaven, Jan and Bouwmeester, Maaike 2009
Analysis of water demand and water pollutant discharge using a regional input-output table: An application to the City of Chongqing, upstream of the Three Gorges Dam in China Tomohiro Okadera and Masataka Watanabe and Kaiqin Xu 2006
The System of Environmental and Economic Accounts—2003 and the Economic Relevance of Physical Flow Accounting Pedersen, Ole Gravgård, and de Haan, Mark 2006
Applying Ecological Input-Output Flow Analysis to Material Flows in Industrial Systems: Part II: Flow Metrics Reid Bailey 2004
Material flow accounting and analysis: A Valuable Tool for Analyses of Society-Nature Interrelationships Hinterberger, Friedrich and Giljum, Stefan and Hammer, Mark 2003
A handbook of industrial ecology Ayres, Robert U and Ayres, Leslie 2002
Materials Flows in Finland: Resource Use in a Small Open Economy Ilmo Mäenpaää and Artti Juutinen 2001
Full Mode and Attribution Mode in Environmental Analysis Helias Udo de Haes 2000
Heavy Metal Balances, Part I Moolenaar, Simon W. and Lexmond, Theo M. 1998
Input-Output Analysis: The First Fifty Years Adam Rose and William Miernyk 1989

Political ecology

7 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Contesting Urban Metabolism: Struggles Over Waste-to-Energy in Delhi, India Demaria, F. and Schindler, S. 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
Toward a Political Ecology of Biosocial Relations. Rethinking the Urban Water Metabolism beyond the City Schulz, Karsten; Bruns, Antje 2016
Volume control: Stormwater and the politics of urban metabolism Joshua Cousins 2016
City, Ecology, Climate and the Common Good: State of Affairs, Challenges and Perspectives from Latin America. Delgado Ramos, Gian Carlo 2015
Political ecology of water: theoretical-methodological reflections for the study of irrigation in the province of Mendoza. Robin Larsimont 2014
Three ecologies: Urban metabolism and the Society-Nature opposition Wachsmuth, David 2012

Scenario analysis

1 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Global scenarios of urban density and its impacts on building energy use through 2050 Güneralp, Burak and Zhou, Yuyu and Ürge-Vorsatz, Diana and Gupta, Mukesh and Yu, Sha and Patel, Pralit L. and Fragkias, Michail and Li, Xiaoma and Seto, Karen C. 2017

Social Metabolism

11 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Between theory and quantification: An integrated analysis of metabolic patterns of informal urban settlements Zora Kovacic and Mario Giampietro 2016
The social metabolism of Scotland: An environmental perspective S. Viglia and K.B. Matthews and D.G. Miller and D. Wardell-Johnson and M. Rivington and S. Ulgiati 2016
Towards more comprehensive urban environmental assessments: exploring the complex relationship between urban and metabolic profiles Aristide Athanassiadis 2016
Competition for land: a sociometabolic perspective Helmut Haberl 2015
Social metabolism: a metrics for biophysical growth and degrowth Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Helmut Haberl 2015
Toward a Practical Ontology for Socioeconomic Metabolism Pauliuk, Stefan, and Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, and Müller, Daniel B., and Hertwich, Edgar G. 2015
Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: Patterns, Trends, and Planetary Boundaries. Helmut Haberl, Karl-Heinz Erb, Fridolin Krausmann 2014
The role of in-use stocks in the social metabolism and in climate change mitigation Pauliuk, Stefan, and Müller, Daniel B. 2014
How unequal is international trade? A biophysical perspective. Simron Singh and Nina Eisenmenger 2011
Urbanization and Socioeconomic Metabolism in Taipei Huang, Shu-Li and Chen, Chia-Wen 2009
Social Metabolism and Labour in a Local Context: Changing Environmental Relations on Trinket Island Singh, Simron Jit and Grünbühel, Clemens M. and Schandl, Heinz and Schulz, Niels 2001

Substance Flow Analysis (SFA)

From Daniels and Moore (2001):

Substance flow analysis (SFA) focuses on material flows of just one, chemically defined substance, or a limited group of such substances through the metabolism of a relatively extensive, predefined geographic region. Within this region, all significant economic sources acting as the driving forces behind induced substance flows are considered. “Substances,” as chemical elements and their compounds, comprise the “material” under study. Typical examples in existing research include nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous, chromium, mercury, lead and other heavy metals, carbon, water, and organochlorine compounds. The substance-based “material flux analysis” approach, centered on a core group of researchers in Switzerland, is also considered as a major form of SFA.

91 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Evaluation Approaches for Advancing Urban Water Goals Renouf, Marguerite A. and Kenway, Steven J. 2017
A multi-regional soil phosphorus balance for exploring secondary fertilizer potential: the case of Norway Hanserud, Ola Stedje, and Brod, Eva, and Ødegaard, Anne Falk, and Müller, Daniel B., and Brattebø, Helge 2015
Investigating Cross-Sectoral Synergies through Integrated Aquaculture, Fisheries, and Agriculture Phosphorus Assessments: A Case Study of Norway Hamilton, Helen A., and Brod, Eva, and Hanserud, Ola S., and Gracey, Erik O., and Vestrum, Magnus I., and Bøen, Anne, and Steinhoff, Franciska S., and Müller, Daniel B., and Brattebø, Helge 2015
Material Flow Analysis for a Circular Economy Development: A Material Stock Quantification Method of Urban Civil Infrastructures with a Case Study of PVC in an Amsterdam Neighbourhood Carolin Bellstedt 2015
The global anthropogenic gallium system: Determinants of demand, supply, and efficiency improvement Løvik, Amund N., and Resrepo, Eliette, and Müller, Daniel B. 2015
A material flow model for impurity accumulation in beverage can recycling systems Løvik, Amund N., and Müller, Daniel B. 2014
Concepts and methodologies for measuring the sustainability of cities Yetano Roche, María and Lechtenböhmer, Stefan and Fischedick, Manfred and Gröne, Marie-Christine and Xia, Chun and Dienst, Carmen 2014
Dynamic material flow analysis for PCBs in the Norwegian building stock Bergsdal, Håvard, and Bratterbø, Helge, and Müller, Daniel B. 2014
Estimation of Life Cycle Material Costs of Cadmium Telluride– and Copper Indium Gallium Diselenide–Photovoltaic Absorber Materials based on Life Cycle Material Flows Max Marwede and Armin Reller 2014
Global carbon benefits of material substitution in passenger cars until 2050 and the impact of the steel and aluminium industries Modarsi, Roja, and Pauliuk, Stefan, and Løvik, Amund N., and Müller, Daniel B. 2014
Long-term strategies for increased recycling of automotive aluminium and its alloying elements Løvik, Amund N., and Modaresi, Roja, and Müller, Daniel B. 2014
Sinks as limited resources? A new indicator for evaluating anthropogenic material flows Ulrich Kral, Paul Brunner, Pi-Cheng Chen, Sih-Rong Chen 2014
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
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
Unintentional Flow of Alloying Elements in Steel during Recycling of End-of-Life Vehicles Hajime Ohno 2014
An Analysis of Stocks and Flows Associated with Water Consumption in Indian Households G. Venkatesh 2013
Centennial Evolution of Aluminum In-Use Stocks on Our Aluminized Planet Gang Liu, and Müller, Daniel B. 2013
Industrial metabolism of PVC in China: A dynamic material flow analysis Zhou, Yucheng; Yang, Ning; Hu, Shanying 2013
Material Flows and Energy Analysis of Glass Containers Discarded in New Jersey, USA Ching-Ling Tsai and Uta Krogmann 2013
Recycling Rates of Aluminum in the United States Wei-Qiang Chen 2013
Sustainable Urban Metabolism Ferrão, Paulo and Fernández, John E. 2013
The Austrian P budget as a basis for resource optimization Egle, L and Zoboli, O and Thaler, S and Rechberger, H and Zessner, M 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
Transforming the Norwegian Dwelling Stock to reach the 2 Degrees Celsius Climate Target Pauliuk, Stefan, and Sjöstrand, Karin, and Müller, Daniel B. 2013
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
Comparing Growth Rates of Nickel and Stainless Steel Use in the Early 2000s Reck, Barbara K. and Rotter, Vera Susanne 2012
Implementing Trans-Boundary Infrastructure-Based Greenhouse Gas Accounting for Delhi, India Abel Chavez 2012
Network environ perspective for urban metabolism and carbon emissions: a case study of Vienna, Austria Chen, Shaoqing and Chen, Bin 2012
Nitrogen food-print: N use and N cascade from livestock systems in relation to pork, beef and milk supply to Paris Chatzimpiros, P and Barles, S 2012
Particle Flow Analysis Rickard Arvidsson 2012
Pathways and Management of Phosphorus in Urban Areas Yuliya Kalmykova 2012
Scenario Analysis of Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Reduction Potential in China's Iron and Steel Industry Shuhua Ma 2012
Scenario Analysis of Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Reduction Potential in China's Iron and Steel Industry Shuhua Ma 2012
Toward a Low Carbon–Dematerialization Society Feng Shi 2012
A Comparison of Two Methods to Conduct Material Flow Analysis on Waste Tires in a Small Island Developing State Saumya Sarkar 2011
Global Rare Earth In-Use Stocks in NdFeB Permanent Magnets Du, Xiaoyue and Graedel, T. E. 2011
Decomposition Analysis of Waste Generation From Stocks in a Dynamic System Masahiro Oguchi 2010
Flows and fates of nickel--cadmium batteries in the City of Cape Town Mason-Jones, Kyle and von Blottnitz, Harro 2010
Metal Stocks in Society: Scientific Synthesis Graedel, TE 2010
Society, energy and materials: the contribution of urban metabolism studies to sustainable urban development issues Sabine Barles 2010
Aluminum Stock and Flows in U.S. Passenger Vehicles and Implications for Energy Use Lynette Cheah 2009
Cadmium Flows Caused by the Worldwide Production of Primary Zinc Metal Matthias Achternbosch 2009
Collaborative Problem Solving Using an Industrial Ecology Approach Boehme, Susan E. 2009
Combined MFA-LCA for Analysis of Wastewater Pipeline Networks G. Venkatesh 2009
Lead In-Use Stock Mao, Jiansu and Graedel, T. E. 2009
Platinum Group Metal Flows of Europe, Part II Mathieu Saurat and Stefan Bringezu 2009
Reverse Problem Formulation for Integrating Process Discharges with Watersheds and Drainage Systems Lovelady, Eva M. 2009
Scenarios of Waste Management for a Waste Emergency Area Mastellone, Maria Laura 2009
Using Total Material Requirement to Reduce the Global Environmental Burden Iñaki Arto 2009
A Product-Level Approach to Historical Material Flow Analysis Harper, Ermelinda M. 2008
Dynamic Modeling of In-Use Cement Stocks in the United States Amit Kapur 2008
Global Phosphorus Flows in the Industrial Economy From a Production Perspective Gara Villalba 2008
Platinum Group Metal Flows of Europe, Part 1 Mathieu Saurat and Stefan Bringezu 2008
Smart Labels for Waste and Resource Management Binder, Claudia R. 2008
The “Hidden” Trade of Metals in the United States Johnson, Jeremiah and Graedel, T. E. 2008
A material flow analysis of wood and paper in Cape Town: is there potential to redirect flows in formal and informal sectors to foster use as a renewable resource? Nissing, Christian and von Blottnitz, Harro 2007
Accounting for Fluorine: Production, Use, and Loss Gara Villalba 2007
Substance Flow Analysis of Mercury Intentionally Used in Products in the United States Alexis Cain 2007
Food Consumption and Nutrient Flows: Nitrogen in Sweden Since the 1870s Schmid Neset, Tina-Simone 2006
Food Consumption and Nutrient Flows: Nitrogen in Sweden Since the 1870s Schmid Neset, Tina-Simone 2006
Plastics materials flow analysis for India Nitin H. Muthaa, Martin and Patela, V. Premnathb 2006
The Energetic Metabolism of the European Union and the United States: Decadal Energy Input Time-Series with an Emphasis on Biomass Helmut Haberl 2006
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
Material flow analysis of industrial systems in Antarctica Klee, Robert Jason 2005
The Multilevel Cycle of Anthropogenic Zinc Graedel, T. E. 2005
Dematerialization: Not Just a Matter of Weight van der Voet, Ester 2004
Future Redistribution of Cadmium to Arable Swedish Soils: A Substance Stock Analysis Sten Karlsson 2004
Long-term Coordination of Timber Production and Consumption Using a Dynamic Material and Energy Flow Analysis Müller, Daniel B. 2004
Managing the Flow of Construction Minerals in the North West Region of England Darryn McEvoy 2004
Postconsumption Sewage Treatment in Environmental Systems Analysis of Foods Ulf Sonesson 2004
Postconsumption Sewage Treatment in Environmental Systems Analysis of Foods Ulf Sonesson 2004
The Biomass Metabolism of the Food System: A Model-Based Survey of the Global and Regional Turnover of Food Biomass Stefan Wirsenius 2003
A handbook of industrial ecology Ayres, Robert U and Ayres, Leslie 2002
Experience with the Use of Substance Flow Analysis in Denmark Erik Hansen 2002
Materials and Energy Flow Analysis of Paper Consumption in the United Kingdom, 1987-2010 Erik Sundin 2001
Urban Metal Flows - A Case Study of Stockholm. Review and Conclusions Bergbäck, B and Johansson, K and Mohlander, U 2001
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
Full Mode and Attribution Mode in Environmental Analysis Helias Udo de Haes 2000
Heavy-Metal Balances, Part II: Management of Cadmium, Copper, Lead, and Zinc in European Agro-Ecosystems Moolenaar, Simon W. 1999
Heavy Metal Balances, Part I Moolenaar, Simon W. and Lexmond, Theo M. 1998
The Life Cycle of Chlorine, Part III Ayres, Robert U. 1998
Western European Materials as Sources and Sinks of CO2 Gielen, Dolf J. 1998
Western European Materials as Sources and Sinks of CO2 Gielen, Dolf J. 1998
Chlorine in the Netherlands, Part I, An Overview René Kleijn 1997
Chlorine in the Netherlands, Part II: Risk Management in Uncertainty for Chlorine Arnold Tukker 1997
Life-Cycle Global Warming Impact of CFCs and CFC-substitutes for Refrigeration Papasavva, Stella and Moomaw, William R. 1997
The Life Cycle of Chlorine, Part II: Conversion Processes and Use in the European Chemical Industry Ayres, Robert U. and Ayres, Leslie W. 1997
The Life-Cycle of Chlorine, Part I: Chlorine Production and the Chlorine-Mercury Connection Ayres, Robert 1997
The Life-Cycle of Chlorine, Part I: Chlorine Production and the Chlorine-Mercury Connection Ayres, Robert 1997

Urban Ecology

11 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Defining and advancing a systems approach for sustainable cities Xuemei Bai and Alyson Surveyer and Thomas Elmqvist and Franz W Gatzweiler and Burak Güneralp and Susan Parnell and Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard and Paul Shrivastava and José Gabriel Siri and Mark Stafford-Smith and Jean-Patrick Toussaint and Robert Webb 2016
Modeling of material and energy flows in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy using urban metabolism approaches Gabriela Fernandez, Igor Tereshchenko 2016
Uncovering driving forces on urban metabolism—A case of Shenyang Lu Sun and Huijuan Dong and Yong Geng and Zhaoling Li and Zhe Liu and Tsuyoshi Fujita and Satoshi Ohnishi and Minoru Fujii 2016
City, Ecology, Climate and the Common Good: State of Affairs, Challenges and Perspectives from Latin America. Delgado Ramos, Gian Carlo 2015
The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology: Space, Scale and Time for the Study of Cities Grove, J.M. and Cadenasso, M. and Pickett, S.T.A. and Burch, W.R., Jr. and Machlis, G.E. 2015
Measuring urban ecosystem functions through ‘Technomass'—A novel indicator to assess urban metabolism Inostroza, Luis 2014
Stadtentwicklung im Nexus von Ressourcenschonung und Klimaschutz Müller, Daniel B., and et.al 2014
Metabolism of the Anthroposphere: Analysis, Evaluation, Design Peter Baccini and Paul Brunner 2012
Contribution to the study of urban ecosystems. The case of a city in North Africa. Serge Kempeneers 1982
The components of Charleroi's ecosystem and the prospects for regional socio-economic development (preliminary study). Duvigneaud, P. and Denayer, S. and Brichard, C. and Brichard, C. and Bouchat, A. and Moniquet, J.-C. and Chasseur, C. 1981
L'écosystème URBS: L'écosystème urbain bruxellois Duvigneaud, P. and Denayer-De Smet, S. 1977

Urban Resilience

2 publications found.
Title Author(s) Year
Defining and advancing a systems approach for sustainable cities Xuemei Bai and Alyson Surveyer and Thomas Elmqvist and Franz W Gatzweiler and Burak Güneralp and Susan Parnell and Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard and Paul Shrivastava and José Gabriel Siri and Mark Stafford-Smith and Jean-Patrick Toussaint and Robert Webb 2016
City, Ecology, Climate and the Common Good: State of Affairs, Challenges and Perspectives from Latin America. Delgado Ramos, Gian Carlo 2015