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Material flow analysis, the Glossary

Material flow analysis (MFA), also referred to as substance flow analysis (SFA), is an analytical method to quantify flows and stocks of materials or substances in a well-defined system.^[1]

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Environmental impact assessment

Anthropogenic metabolism, also referred to as metabolism of the anthroposphere, is a term used in industrial ecology, material flow analysis, and waste management to describe the material and energy turnover of human society. Material flow analysis and Anthropogenic metabolism are industrial ecology.

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Anthroposphere

The anthroposphere refers to that part of the Earth system that is made or modified by humans for use in human activities and human habitats.

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Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 17438 May 1794), CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.

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Capital accumulation

Capital accumulation is the dynamic that motivates the pursuit of profit, involving the investment of money or any financial asset with the goal of increasing the initial monetary value of said asset as a financial return whether in the form of profit, rent, interest, royalties or capital gains.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

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Chemical element

A chemical element is a chemical substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by chemical reactions.

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Circular economy

A circular economy (also referred to as circularity or CE) is a model of resource production and consumption in any economy that involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling existing materials and products for as long as possible.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Data validation and reconciliation

Industrial process data validation and reconciliation, or more briefly, process data reconciliation (PDR), is a technology that uses process information and mathematical methods in order to automatically ensure data validation and reconciliation by correcting measurements in industrial processes.

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Ecological economics

Ecological economics, bioeconomics, ecolonomy, eco-economics, or ecol-econ is both a transdisciplinary and an interdisciplinary field of academic research addressing the interdependence and coevolution of human economies and natural ecosystems, both intertemporally and spatially. Material flow analysis and Ecological economics are industrial ecology.

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Economic growth

Economic growth can be defined as the increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy in a financial year.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.

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Energy

Energy is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat and light.

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Energy accounting

Energy accounting is a system used to measure, analyze and report the energy consumption of different activities on a regular basis.

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Environmental Science & Technology

Environmental Science & Technology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1967 by the American Chemical Society.

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Externality

In economics, an externality or external cost is an indirect cost or benefit to an uninvolved third party that arises as an effect of another party's (or parties') activity.

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Industrial ecology

Industrial ecology (IE) is the study of material and energy flows through industrial systems.

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Industrial metabolism is a concept to describe the material and energy turnover of industrial systems.

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Input–output model

In economics, an input–output model is a quantitative economic model that represents the interdependencies between different sectors of a national economy or different regional economies.

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations.

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Journal of Industrial Ecology

The Journal of Industrial Ecology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering industrial ecology. Material flow analysis and journal of Industrial Ecology are industrial ecology.

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Landfill

A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials.

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Life-cycle assessment

Life cycle assessment (LCA), also known as life cycle analysis, is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts associated with all the stages of the life cycle of a commercial product, process, or service. Material flow analysis and life-cycle assessment are environmental impact assessment and industrial ecology.

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Mass balance

In physics, a mass balance, also called a material balance, is an application of conservation of mass to the analysis of physical systems.

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Material criticality

Material criticality is the determination of which materials that flow through an industry or economy are most important to the production process. Material flow analysis and material criticality are industrial ecology.

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Material flow accounting

Material flow accounting (MFA) is the study of material flows on a national or regional scale. Material flow analysis and material flow accounting are industrial ecology.

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Material flow cost accounting

Material flow cost accounting (MFCA) is a management tool that assists organizations in better understanding the potential environmental and financial consequences of their material and energy practices and seeks to improve them via changes in those practices.

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Material flow management

Material flow management (MFM) is an economic focused method of analysis and reformation of goods production and subsequent waste through the lens of material flows, incorporating themes of sustainability and the theory of a circular economy. Material flow analysis and material flow management are industrial ecology.

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Need

A need is dissatisfaction at a point of time and in a given context.

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Nutrient

A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow and reproduce.

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Oil refinery

An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha.

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Oil spill

An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.

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Organigraph

An organigraph is a graphical representation of a company's structure or processes.

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Recycling

Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.

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Resource intensity

Resource intensity is a measure of the resources (e.g. water, energy, materials) needed for the production, processing and disposal of a unit of good or service, or for the completion of a process or activity; it is therefore a measure of the efficiency of resource use.

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Sankey diagram

Sankey diagrams are a data visualisation technique or flow diagram that emphasizes flow/movement/change from one state to another or one time to another, in which the width of the arrows is proportional to the flow rate of the depicted extensive property.

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Santorio Santorio

Santorio Santorio (29 March 1561 – 25 February 1636) whose real name was Santorio Santori (or de' Sanctoriis) better known in English as Sanctorius of Padua was an Italian physiologist, physician, and professor, who introduced the quantitative approach into the life sciences and is considered the father of experimental physiology.

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Social metabolism or socioeconomic metabolism is the set of flows of materials and energy that occur between nature and society, between different societies, and within societies.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time. Material flow analysis and Sustainability are environmental social science concepts.

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System

A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole.

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System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting

System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA)System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012: Central Framework – final, official publication 2012, UN, EC, IMF, OECD and World Bank, United Nations, European Commission, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and World Bank 2012, 378 pp.

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The Limits to Growth

The Limits to Growth (often abbreviated LTG) is a 1972 report that discussed the possibility of exponential economic and population growth with finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation.

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Theodor Weyl

Theodor Weyl (8 January 1851 – 6 June 1913) was a German chemist and hygienist born in Berlin.

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Unit process

A unit process is one or more grouped operations in a manufacturing system that can be defined and separated from others.

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United Nations Environment Programme

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system.

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Urban metabolism (UM) is a model to facilitate the description and analysis of the flows of the materials and energy within cities, such as undertaken in a material flow analysis of a city. Material flow analysis and Urban metabolism are environmental impact assessment, environmental social science concepts and industrial ecology.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_flow_analysis

Also known as Material cycle, Substance flow analysis.

Material flow analysis, the Glossary

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Environmental impact assessment

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