When the only way to implement a satisfactory future in human development is holistic thinking about sustainability, why is it that we so rarely happen to come across aids for realizing this mindset? Well, it’s a...
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ISO 14051-Based Material Flow Cost Accounting in a Nutshell
The ISO 14000 series has proved to be handy for quite a while now. Companies and public institutions have valued the universal guidelines for all sorts of environmental management procedures – energy management, carbon...
How to Invent the Right Institution to Cut Resource Conflicts
Can you resist the impetus coming from a 234 page report that has the promising title “Resource Futures” and boasts a beautiful Sankey diagram on the front page? See, I couldn’t either. But before you expect a...
When Oil Majors Embrace Material Flow Analysis, New Hope for a Sustainable 21st Century Arises
There are manifold approaches to close the apparent gap between a shrinking resource base on the one hand and the ever rising human resource demand on the other. For the longest time, the world’s big industrial...
Refining Material Flow Analysis: The Arising of Input-Output Economics
We can be proud of the great wealth of reliable, good quality data that are being produced every day all over the world to inform policies, promote changes and monitor the progress of our societies. Is what proclamed...