Material flow analysis

Abstract: Part 1 Context and history: industrial ecology - goals and definitions, Reid Lifset and Thomas E. Graedel exploring the history of industrial metabolism, Marina Fischer-Kowalski the recent history of industrial ecology, Suren Erkman industrial ecology and cleaner production, Tim Jackson on industrial ecosystems, Robert U. Ayres industrial ecology - governance, laws and regulations, Braden R. Allenby industrial ecology and industrial metabolism - use and misuse of metaphors, Allan Johansson. Part 2 Methodology: material flow analysis, Stefan Bringezu and Yuichi Moriguchi substance flow analysis (SFA) methodology, Ester van der Voet physical input-output accounting, Gunter Strassert process analysis approach to industrial ecology, Urmila Diwekar and Mitchell Small industrial ecology and life cycle assessment, Helias A. Udo de Haes impact evaluation in industrial ecology, Bengt Steen. Part 3 Economics and industrial ecology: environmental accounting and material flow analysis, Peter Bartelmus materials flow analysis (MFA) and economic modelling, Karin Ibenholt exergy flows in the economy -efficiency and dematerialization, Robert U. Ayres transmaterialization, Walter C. Labys dematerialization and rematerialization as two recurring phenomena of industrial ecology, Sabder De Bruyn optimal resource extraction, Matthias Ruth industrial ecology and technology policy - Japanese experience, Chihiro Watanabe. Part 4 Industrial ecology at the national/regional level: global biogeochemical cycles, Vaclav Smil material flow accounts - the United States and the world, Donald G. Rogich and Grecia R. Matos industrial ecology -analyses for sustainable resource and materials management in Germany and Europe, Stefan Bringezu material flow analysis and industrial ecology studies in Japan, Yuichi Moriguchi industrial ecology - an Australian case study, Andria Durney industrial ecology - United Kingdom, Heinz Schandl and Niels Schulz industrial symbiosis - the legacy of Kalundborg, John R. Ehrenfeld and Marian R. Chertow. Part 5 Industrial ecology at the sectoral/materials level: material flows due to mining and urbanization, Ian Douglas and Nigel Lawson long term world metal use - application of industrial ecology in a system-dynamics model, Detlef P. van Vuuren et al risks of metal flows and accumulation, Jeroen B. Guinee and Ester van der Voet material constraints on technology evolution - the case of scarce metals and emerging energy technologies, Bjorn A. Andersson and Ingrid Rade wastes as raw materials, David T. Allen heavy metals in agrosystems, Simon W. Moolenaar industrial ecology and automotive systems, Thomas E. Graedel et al the information industry, Brande R. Allenby. Part 6 Applications and policy implications: industrial ecology and green design, Chris T. Hendrickson et al industrial ecology and risk analysis, Paul R. Kleindorfer industrial ecology and spatial planning, Clinton J. Andrews industrial estates as model eco

Abstract: Summary “Societal metabolism” provides the appropriate conceptual basis for the rapidly growing development and analylical and policy interest in materials flow analysis (MFA). Following the review of the earlier intellectual background of societal metabolism in the first installment of this two-part article, this paper focuses on the current state of the art by examining more recent research referring t o societal metabolism in terms of material and substance flows. An operational classification of the literature according to frame of reference (socioeconomic system, ecosystem), system level (global, national, regional, functional, temporal), and types of flows under consideration (materials, energy, substances) highlights some of its characteristic features. There follows an integrated discussion of some of the major conceptual and methodological properties of MFA, with a particular focus on the field of bulk materials flows on a national level, comparing the major empirical results. Finally, the theoretical stringency research productivity, and political relevance of the MFA-related studies are assessed.