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
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