Global material flows and resource productivity forty years of evidence

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 827-838

  Schandl, Heinz ^a,b   Fischer Kowalski, Marina ^c   West, James ^a   Giljum, Stefan ^d   Dittrich, Monika ^e   Eisenmenger, Nina ^c   Geschke, Arne ^f   Lieber, Mirko ^d   Wieland, Hanspeter ^d   Schaffartzik, Anke ^c   Krausmann, Fridolin ^c   Gierlinger, Sylvia ^c   Hosking, Karin ^a   Lenzen, Manfred ^f   Tanikawa, Hiroki ^g   Miatto, Alessio ^g   Fishman, Tomer ^g  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^e IFEU Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg GmbH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental policy; Global material flows; Industrial ecology; Material flow accounting (MFA); Resource productivity; Trade

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMERCE; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PLANNING; POPULATION STATISTICS; PRODUCTIVITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; MATERIAL FLOW; MATERIAL FLOW ACCOUNTINGS; RESOURCE PRODUCTIVITY;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 85053462598     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: 15309290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12626     Document Type: Article

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