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The author explains that material flow accounts represent an important tool for cataloging and calculating the apparent and hidden movements of bulk materials through the economy. He also argues that MFA information can be used to design indicators that show the relation between flows and environmental impacts. MFA’s can thus indicate the opportunities for policy improvement at the meta or megascale.
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Kleijn, R., Tukker, A., and van der Voet, E., 1997, Chlorine in the Netherlands, Part I, An Overview, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 1(1):95–116.
Moriguchi, Y., 1997, Environmental Accounting in Physical terms in Japan — Preliminary Material Flow Accounts and Trade Related Issues, Presented at the ConAccount Workshop, Leiden Netherlands, January 1997, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Environment Agency of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
Stigliani, W.M., and Anderberg, S., 1992, Industrial Metabolism at the Regional Level: The Rhine Basin, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.
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US Geological Survey, various years, Material flow accounts and analyses in the US for arsenic, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, manganese, mercury, salt, tungsten, vanadium, and zinc are available from the Office of Minerals Information at the US Geological Survey located in Reston, Virginia, USA.
Wernick, I.K. and Ausubel, J.H. 1995, National Material Metrics for Industrial Ecology, Resources Policy 21(3): 189–198.
Wernick, I.K., and Ausubel, J.H., 1995, National Materials Flows and the Environment, Annual Review of Energy and Environment, 20:462–492.
World Resources Institute, 1997, Resource Flows: The Material Basis of Industrial Economies, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.
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Wernick, I. (1998). Material flow accounts: definitions and data. In: Vellinga, P., Berkhout, F., Gupta, J. (eds) Managing a Material World. Environment & Policy, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5125-2_6
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