Use of Physical Supply and Use Tables for Calculation of Economy-Wide Material Flow Indicators

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11690%2F19%3A10398682" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11690/19:10398682 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=T6qwQd_H56" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=T6qwQd_H56</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12828" target="_blank" >10.1111/jiec.12828</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Use of Physical Supply and Use Tables for Calculation of Economy-Wide Material Flow Indicators

Original language description

The study described in this article presents the first-ever physical supply and use tables (PSUTs) based on the recently published methodological standard for the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA). The tables were compiled for the Czech Republic for 2014. The compilation procedure followed was described in detail so that it can serve as a source of inspiration and a benchmark for other researchers and/or statisticians. The major shortcoming of the PSUTs is that not all needed data were readily available in physical units and required estimations based on proxies. Some parts of the tables are therefore burdened with a degree of uncertainty. In order to address the price inhomogeneity of sectoral prices for commodity outputs, imports, and exports, which tends to be typical for monetary supply and use tables (MSUTs), the PSUTs and MSUTs were further used for the calculation of raw material equivalents of import, exports, and raw material input (RMI) and raw material consumption (RMC) indicators. A comparison of results showed that the total indicators do not differ that much: the largest difference of 5% was recorded for raw material equivalents of exports, while RMC, for instance, remained nearly the same. However, we still argue for the use of PSUTs for the calculation of raw material equivalents, as changes in total volume of the indicators were accompanied with changes in their material structure. This can have significant consequences for the assessment of environmental impacts related to material consumption, as environmental impacts are very material specific.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-00262S" target="_blank" >GA16-00262S: Anthropogenic material flows in the Czech Republic: Analysis of structure and trends and opening a black-box of the physical economy</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Industrial Ecology

ISSN

1088-1980

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

893-905

UT code for WoS article

000478901200012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85056722949