Economy-wide material system analysis: Mapping material flows through the economy

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11690%2F21%3A10430922" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11690/21:10430922 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=vpt~7HdTWv" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=vpt~7HdTWv</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13142" target="_blank" >10.1111/jiec.13142</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Economy-wide material system analysis: Mapping material flows through the economy

Original language description

This article proposes a new approach for mapping material flows through the economy referred to as economy-wide material system analysis (EW-MSA). EW-MSA monitors material flows along production chains, connects manufacturing and use of various products with related emission flows, and shows how waste is recycled. The quantification of material flows in EW-MSA is carried out by unambiguously defined EW-MSA indicators. The data on EW-MSA indicators are organized in an EW-MSA database while the results of EW-MSA can be clearly presented with Sankey flow charts. The proposed method was tested using the Czech Republic as a case study. It shows that the Czech Republic is an open economy, as more manufactured products are exported than used domestically. The total physical stock of materials in the economy is continuously growing and only about 7% of total material input into manufacturing is composed of secondary materials. Manufacturing of motor vehicles and transport equipment is highly dependent on imported materials and a significant amount of waste from motor vehicles&apos; manufacture and use is exported instead of being recycled and returned to the manufacturing process. Further development and use of EW-MSA should go hand in hand with the development of needed data sources: Only a fraction of data was directly accessible in the official statistics while the rest had to be modeled with the use of other data and various coefficients. This burdened the results with some uncertainties.

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/GA19-01280S" target="_blank" >GA19-01280S: Material system analysis of the Czech Republic: A tool for increasing analytical potential of the economy-wide material flow analysis</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2021

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

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1121-1135

UT code for WoS article

000646225000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85105387609