Sentence examples for global material flows from inspiring English sources

It thus represents a major advantage in terms of detail for assessing global material flows.

We argued that recent developments in the compilation of multi-regional input output databases open up a range of new analytical options for the assessment of global material flows related to final consumption of a country or world region.

We use a consistent inventory of methods and data to model global material flows.

We introduce a new long-term global material flows database covering 177 individual countries in the period from 1950 to 2010 in ten-year intervals.

Driven by its "growing giants" (Hashimoto et al., 2012), Asia, home to half the world's population, dominated global material flows at the end of our period of observation: Following a growth spurt between 2000 and 2010 during which material extraction and consumption doubled (Fig. 1c), half of global resource consumption occurred here.

40008_2016_48_MOESM3_ESM.docx Additional file 3: Technical details on the compilation of the global material flow database.

The material extensions in EXIOBASE were compiled using the WU Global Material Flow database (WU 2015, available at www.materialflows.net).net

For more information on the compilation of the underlying material flow database, for example, regarding the treatment of coupled production in metal mining, see Additional file 3: Technical details on the compilation of the global material flow database and WU (2015).

Krausmann et al. (2008b) analyzed global material flow patterns, describing the metabolic transition expressed by the growing magnitude and changing composition of these flows.

In this article, we present a long-term global material flow dataset covering material extraction, trade, and consumption of 177 individual countries between 1950 and 2010.

We compared our results to existing national studies with coinciding time frames as well as with existing global material flow accounts.