Economically extended—MFA: a material flow approach for a better understanding of food production chain

Kytzia, Susanne; Faist, Mireille; Baccini, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2004.02.004

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“…q combining material or energy flows and economic flows (Duchin and Steenge 1999, Bouman et al 2000, Kytzia et al 2004; for a review see Binder 2007); q modeling human behavior and drivers that specifically impact on an ecosystem or an ecosystem service (Redman 1999, Antle andStoorvogel 2006); q identifying and modeling specific goods that are relevant for the human system as well as for the ecological system (Liu et al 2007);…”

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Comparison of Frameworks for Analyzing Social-ecological Systems

Binder¹,

Hinkel²,

Bots³

et al. 2013

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ABSTRACT. In this paper we compare 10 established frameworks for analyzing social-ecological systems. We limited ourselves to frameworks that were explicitly designed to be used by a wider community of researchers and practitioners. Although all these frameworks seem to have emerged from the need for concepts that permit structured, interdisciplinary reasoning about complex problems in social-ecological systems, they differ significantly with respect to contextual and structural criteria, such as conceptualization of the ecological and social systems and their interrelation. It appears that three main criteria suffice to produce a classification of frameworks that may be used as a decision tree when choosing a framework for analysis. These criteria are (i) whether a framework conceptualizes the relationship between the social and ecological systems as being uni-or bidirectional; (ii) whether it takes an anthropocentric or an ecocentric perspective on the ecological system; and (iii) whether it is an action-oriented or an analysis-oriented framework.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison of Frameworks for Analyzing Social-ecological Systems

Binder¹,

Hinkel²,

Bots³

et al. 2013

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418

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“…We applied a combination of material flow analysis (MFA) and material flow cost accounting (MFCA) to estimate absolute and relative liabilities (Guenther, Jasch, Schmidt, Wagner, & Huisingh, 2012;Kytzia, Faist, & Baccini, 2004;Pauliuk, Majeau-Bettez, & Müller, 2015;A. Schmidt, Götze, & Sygulla, 2014;M.…”

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Quantifying Impacts of Consumption Based Charge for Carbon Intensive Materials on Products

et al. 2016

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“…To overcome the limitations of individual models and to tackle new research questions, many combinations of accounting frameworks and models are available. Examples include economically extended MFA (Kytzia et al ), the waste input‐output (WIO) model (Nakamura and Kondo ; Nakamura et al ), multilayer supply and use tables (SUTs) (Schmidt et al , ), and “hybrid” approaches that combine detailed process data with economy‐wide system descriptions. The latter include hybrid SUTs (Suh and Lippiatt ), hybrid LCA (de Haes et al ; Suh ; Strømman ), the hybrid I‐O approach (Nakamura et al ), and mixed‐unit IOA (Hawkins et al ).…”

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A General System Structure and Accounting Framework for Socioeconomic Metabolism

Pauliuk

Majeau‐Bettez

Müller

2015

J of Industrial Ecology

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SummaryA wide spectrum of accounting frameworks and models is available to describe socioeconomic metabolism (SEM). Despite the common system of study, a large variety of terms and representations of that system are used by different models. This makes it difficult for practitioners to compare and choose a model or model combination that is fit for purpose. To facilitate model comparison, we analyze the system structure of material flow analysis (MFA); life cycle assessment (LCA); supply and use tables (SUTs); Leontief, Ghosh, and waste input-output analysis; integrated assessment models; and computable general equilibrium models. We show that the typical system structure of MFA and LCA is a directed graph. For the other models and some MFA and LCA studies, the system structure is a bipartite directed graph. We demonstrate that bipartite directed graphs and SUTs are equivalent representations of SEM. We show that the system structures of the models above are special cases of a general system structure, which models SEM as a bipartite graph. The general system structure includes industries, markets, the final use phase, products, waste, production factors, resources, and emissions. From the general system structure, we derive an accounting framework in the form of a generalized SUT. The general system structure facilitates the development of clear and unambiguous terminology across models. It helps to identify rules for the correct accounting of waste flows and stock changes. It facilitates model comparison and can serve as a blueprint for a model-independent database of SEM. Keywords:accounting bipartite graphs industrial ecology model societal metabolism supply and use tables system of national accounts (SNA) Supporting information is available on the JIE Web site

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Economically extended—MFA: a material flow approach for a better understanding of food production chain

Cited by 76 publications

References 21 publications

Comparison of Frameworks for Analyzing Social-ecological Systems

Comparison of Frameworks for Analyzing Social-ecological Systems

Quantifying Impacts of Consumption Based Charge for Carbon Intensive Materials on Products

A General System Structure and Accounting Framework for Socioeconomic Metabolism

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