• DocumentCode
    2171593
  • Title

    A Review of Material Flow Analysis

  • Author

    Bao, Zhimi ; Zhang, Shushen ; Chen, Yu ; Liu, Suling ; Zhang, Yun ; Wang, Huanlei

  • Author_Institution
    Key Lab. of Ind. Ecology & Environ. Eng. (MOE), Dalian Univ. of Technol., Dalian, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    24-26 Aug. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    8
  • Abstract
    Material flow analysis (MFA) has been a hot topic on the research of circular economy and sustainable development of the environment - economic systems in recent years. This paper briefly reviews the development process of MFA. A detailed summary of the recent progress of MFA has been given in three forms, which respectively for three research levels (the national level, the regional level and the industrial level). The fundamental methodology of MFA has been introduced. And its development has been summarized in a list. In the end, the research prospects have been concluded and discussed.
  • Keywords
    environmental economics; sustainable development; circular economy; environment-economic system; material flow analysis; sustainable development; Analytical models; Biological system modeling; Cities and towns; Economics; Europe; Guidelines; Materials;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Management and Service Science (MASS), 2010 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Wuhan
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5325-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5326-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMSS.2010.5577113
  • Filename
    5577113