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This chapter presents tool (FLUX) that has been developed for the analysis of patterns of materials use (physical flows and physical stocks) in an economy and of associated patterns of environmental pollution. This type of analysis is known as substance flow analysis (SFA) and as materials flow analysis (MFA) (see e.g. Vellinga et al., 1998; Schmidt and Schorb, 1995). SFA may be compared with economic analysis (e.g. input-output modelling) that is based on national accounts that describe economies. While national accounts map the flow of goods and services measured by their prices, SFA measures these flows by their contents of a given substance. A substance flow account — a chemical cross-section of the flows and stocks in an economy and in the environment (Olsthoorn, 1991) — is the core of SFA and the starting point of modelling. An important characteristic of SFA is that it aims to be chemically comprehensive, taking account both intended and unintended uses (flows) of substances (e.g. cadmium in foodstuffs).
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Olsthoorn, X., Boelens, J. (2000). FLUX, a tool for substance flow analysis. In: van der Voet, E., Guinée, J.B., de Haes, H.A.U. (eds) Heavy Metals: A Problem Solved?. Environment & Policy, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9610-7_4
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