Methodology and Indicators of Economy‐wide Material Flow Accounting

By Marina Fischer‐Kowalski, F. Krausmann, S. Giljum, S. Lutter, Andreas Mayer, S. Bringezu, Yuichi Moriguchi, H. Schütz, H. Schandl, Helga Weisz. 2011

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Mechanical Engineering

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Global Patterns of Material Flows and their Socio-Economic and Environmental Implications: A MFA Study on All Countries World-Wide from 1980 to 2009 (2014, methodology): “For the analyses of national material use and productivity, economy-wide material flow accounting (EW-MFA) is the methodology with the longest tradition and highest degree of international harmonization [17].”
A stock-flow-fund ecological macroeconomic model (2015, methodology): “4 For the use of the material balance in material flow accounting see Fischer-Kowalski et al. (2011).”
Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century (2013, background): “extraction’ in material flow accounting (14,15).”
The material footprint of nations (2013, background): “[These numbers do not include unused extraction of raw materials, as incorporated in the total material requirement (TMR) and total material consumption (TMC) indicators (35, 39, 41).”
Material Flow Accounting: Measuring Global Material Use for Sustainable Development (2017, methodology): “A particular method derived from the socio-economic metabolism framework is economy-wide material flow accounting (MFA) (15, 16).”
Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity: Forty Years of Evidence (2018, background): “A recent synthesis in this journal has shown that the different global and regional studies have largely reached agreement on the magnitude and composition of global material use (Fischer-Kowalski et al. 2011).”
Carbon and Materials Embodied in the International Trade of Emerging Economies (2012, background): “…the global economy used less than 40 billion tons of these materials.1 By 2008, this number had increased by more than 50%, to almost 70 billion tons (SERI 2011; see also Krausmann et al. 2009; 636 Journal of Industrial Ecology www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jie Fischer-Kowalski et al. 2011).”
The Material Stock–Flow–Service Nexus: A New Approach for Tackling the Decoupling Conundrum (2017, methodology): “One major strand of socioeconomic metabolism research is focused on analyzing flows of materials [42] and energy [43] following a top-down research strategy (“economy-wide material and energy flow analysis”, abbreviated EW-MEFA) using data from statistical offices.”
The Weight of Society Over Time and Space: A Comprehensive Account of the Construction Material Stock of Japan, 1945–2010 (2015, background): “Moreover, because this type of research has been concentrating much more on inflows and than on outflows (Fischer-Kowalski et al. 2011), even accounts of these net additions to stock have been few (Matthews et al. 2000; Kovanda et al. 2007; Ministry of the Environment 2009).”