The physical economy of the European Union: Cross-country comparison and determinants of material consumption

Weisz, Helga; Krausmann, Fridolin; Amann, Christof; Eisenmenger, Nina; Erb, Karl‐Heinz; Hubacek, Klaus; Fischer‐Kowalski, Marina

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.08.016

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“…Auf Grundlage einschlägiger Theorieansätze und Datenverfügbarkeit wurden zunächst 68 Variablen als mögliche Antriebskräfte identifiziert (Canas 2003;Malenbaum 1978;Weisz et al 2006 …”

Section: Antriebskräfte Der Ressourcenproduktivitätunclassified

Potenziale der Materialeffizienz erschließen

Bleischwitz¹,

Steger²,

Onischka³

et al. 2009

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“…Auf Grundlage einschlägiger Theorieansätze und Datenverfügbarkeit wurden zunächst 68 Variablen als mögliche Antriebskräfte identifiziert (Canas 2003;Malenbaum 1978;Weisz et al 2006 …”

Section: Antriebskräfte Der Ressourcenproduktivitätunclassified

Potenziale der Materialeffizienz erschließen

Bleischwitz¹,

Steger²,

Onischka³

et al. 2009

ÖW

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“…The DMC indicator provides a measure of the net use of material within a country in a given year. It can additionally serve as an indicator of domestic waste potential [26]: All material used eventually turns into waste, almost immediately in the case of through-flow materials such as agricultural biomass or fossil fuels or with a considerable time lag in the case of materials integrated into stocks or durable consumer products. In its specific allocation of material flows to countries, the DMC indicator implicitly assigns responsibility: Countries are responsible for the material use occurring on their territory but they are neither responsible for the impacts their exported products may have elsewhere nor for the impact associated with the production of goods they import.…”

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Raw Material Equivalents: The Challenges of Accounting for Sustainability in a Globalized World

2015

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Abstract:The indicator domestic material consumption (domestic extraction + importsexports) is widely used to track the scale, composition, and dynamics of material use. As production increasingly occurs at a spatial distance from the demand it ultimately satisfies, new accounting challenges arise that this indicator may not be able to meet. In response, indicators in raw material equivalents (RME) have been developed to account for material use, no matter where it occurs, associated with final demand. RME indicators are most commonly calculated based on monetary input-output tables with material extensions. The resulting indicators, which are rapidly gaining scientific and political importance, must be interpreted as stemming from a mixed monetary and physical accounting approach. How such an approach differs from a physical accounting approach is shown in this article using an input-output model with a material extension. Neither the physical nor the mixed monetary and physical approach is found to generate results which are incorrect. Instead, the results must be interpreted in light of the assumptions entailed in the approach on which they are based. In making possibilities and limits of interpretation in both cases transparent, RME indicators can more readily be discussed and used by sustainability scientists and practitioners.

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“…Bringezu et al ( 2003Bringezu et al ( , 2004 and Weisz et al ( 2006 ) have compared the results of NMAs for a number of countries and found (among many other features) that the domestic material input per capita had not been decoupled on an absolute basis from gross domestic product per capita. At present, there exist NMAs for almost all countries of the world, documenting annual material extraction and use as well as trade for the past several decades (Schaffartzik et al 2014 ).…”

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Industrial Ecology’s First Decade

Graedel

Lifset

2016

Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

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Industrial ecology can be said to have begun with a 1989 seminal publication entitled "Strategies for Manufacturing." During the next decade, the fi eld was initially defi ned and developed by researchers in industry and elsewhere who saw the opportunity for improving corporate and governmental performance related to the environment and sustainability. They introduced design for environment, industrial symbiosis, and resource use and loss assessments at national and global levels and enhanced the embryonic specialty of life-cycle assessment. In the same decade, industrial ecology became widely recognized as a scholarly specialty, with its own journals and conferences. This chapter reviews industrial ecology's emergence and evolution, largely from a North American perspective, with emphasis on the fi eld's lesser-known fi rst decade.

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The physical economy of the European Union: Cross-country comparison and determinants of material consumption

Cited by 247 publications

References 19 publications

Potenziale der Materialeffizienz erschließen

Potenziale der Materialeffizienz erschließen

Raw Material Equivalents: The Challenges of Accounting for Sustainability in a Globalized World

Industrial Ecology’s First Decade

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