SPECIAL SESSION ON MATERIAL FLOW ACCOUNTING

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2003

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 5

CHAIR’S SUMMARY 9

PART I. DEVELOPMENT AND MOST PROMISING USES. 11

HISTORY AND OVERVIEW OF MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS, 13

1. Material flow analysis and accounting 13

2. Concepts for sustaining the metabolism of economies. 14

3. Impacts of material flows and types of indicators 15

4. Types of analysis 15

5. Use of material flow related analyses . 17

6. Economy-wide MFA 18

7. MFA based indicators . 18

INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF INFLOWS AND OUTFLOWS 25

MATERIAL FLOW ACCOUNTING: The experience of Canada. 29

1. Introduction 29

2. Material and Energy Flow Accounts in Canada . 29

3. The MEFA accounting framework . 31

4. Uses of the Material and Energy Flow Accounts . 32

5. Material and Energy Flow Indicators 33

6. Data gaps 34

7. Future directions for Material and Energy Flow Accounts. 34

ANALYSIS OF MATERIAL FLOWS FOR SUSTAINABILITY POLICY: The experience of Italy 37

1. Introduction 37

2. Data and method of analysis . 38

3. Main results 39

4. Conclusions 44

MATERIAL FLOW ACCOUNTING AND ITS APPLICATION: The experience of Japan 49

1. Background 49

2. Overview of studies on MFA and inter-related tools 49

3. Characterization of Japanese Material Flows . 51

4. Use of MFA for the development of environmental indicators 53

5. Conclusion and future perspective 55

MATERIAL FLOW ACCOUNTING: MATERIAL USE FOR NATIONAL CONSUMPTION AND FOR

EXPORT: The experience of Sweden 59

Abstract. 59

1. Introduction 59

2. Method. 61

3. Results 61

4. Conclusions 64

PART II. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES. 67

MATERIAL FLOW ACCOUNTING – FRAMEWORKS AND METHODS: Presentation by Eurostat 69

1. Introduction 69

2. Mapping MFA activities with policy issues . 70

3. Frameworks for MFA . 71

4. A framework for economy-wide MFA. 73

5. Indicators derivable from a material balance 74

6. A sequence of accounts. 75

7. Basic data. 75

8. Selection and interpretation of indicators . 76

9. The trade bias in material input indicators 76

10. Conclusions and outlook. 77

MATERIAL FLOW ACCOUNTING – METHODOLOGY AND FRAMEWORKS: Presentation by the

United States 79

1. Introduction 79

2. The national economy. 79

3. Frameworks 79

4. Boundary Conditions 81

5. Approaches . 82

6. Estimation 83

7. Indicators . 84

8. Conclusion . 84

PART III. LINKS WITH INDICATORS AND OTHER ACCOUNTING TOOLS 85

LINKS BETWEEN THE MICRO AND THE MACRO FLOWS: SUBSTANCE FLOW ANALYSIS:

Presentation by the Netherlands, Leiden University . 87

1. Introduction 87

2. Material Flow Accounting (MFA) 87

3. Bulk-MFA 88

4. Substance Flow Analysis (SFA) . 88

5. Links between bulk-MFA en SFA 92

LINKS BETWEEN MACRO AND MICRO FLOWS: THE SECTORAL APPROACH: Presentation by

Austria, IFF 97

1. Introduction 97

2. Methodological preconditions for a sectoral approach . 99

3. Problems witch mainly occur at the sectoral level 102

4. Discussion 103

LINKS WITH NATURAL RESOURCE ACCOUNTS AND RELATED INCIDATORS: THE CASE OF

WATER RESOURCE & USES ACCOUNTS Presentation by France. 105

1. Objectives of water Resource & Uses accounts 105

2. History . 105

3. Selected recent developments in the continuation of the OECD exercise 105

4. The accounting framework of water R & U . 106

5. Examples of indicators of material flows derived from the water resource & uses accounts. 107

6. Next steps (very incomplete panorama) 108

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS OF THE SPECIAL SESSION ON MFA. 113