Material Flow Analysis

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 760-764

  Schandl, Heinz ^a   Schaffartzik, Anke ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Decoupling; Green economy; Industrial metabolism; Input output analysis; Material efficiency; Material flow analysis; Physical accounting; Satellite accounts; Social metabolism; Stocks and flows; Sustainable consumption and production

Indexed keywords

EID: 85030867512     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.91060-2     Document Type: Chapter

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