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Materials Use Across World Regions: Inevitable Pasts and Possible Futures
The Journal of Industrial Ecology has recently published a special issue on Materials Use Across World Regions: Inevitable Pasts and Possible Futures. The special issue examines resource use on a global scale--focusing on materials use at national and world regional levels, detailed analysis of metals cycles within this context, and assessment of existing governmental policies that are based on material flow analysis (MFA). Countries and regions examined include Australia, Japan, Austria, the USA, Europe, Latin America, and the transition economies. The special issue is available here. Articles in this special issue specifically address:
- The global sociometabolic transition
- Resource productivity in Japan
- Resource use trajectories in Australia
- Historical carbon flows in Austria
- Comparative material flows in Latin America
- Material use changes in transition economies
- Platinum group metal flows in Europe
- An approach to historical material flow analysis
- The "hidden" trade of metals in products
- Prospects for material flow accounts in the U.S.
- Japan's government policies based on material flow analysis
The Journal of Industrial Ecology is an international, multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed bimonthly published by Wiley-Blackwell, owned by Yale University, and headquartered at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The special issue is edited by Helga Weisz, of Klagenfurt University, Austria, and Heinz Schandl, of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia.
