Category Archives: SERI Background Papers
Sustainable consumption – Political debate and actual impact
Fuchs, D. & Lorek, S. (2004)
This paper explores the prospects for global sustainable consumption governance. Analyzing developments in this area since the Rio Summit and Agenda 21, the paper highlights that core actors and efforts have neglected essential parts of a sustainable consumption governance strategy. While they focus on the efficiency of consumption, questions [...]
Material Flow Accounting and Analysis (MFA) – A Valuable Tool for Analyses of Society-Nature Interrelationships
Hinterberger, F., Giljum, S. & Hammer, M. (2003)
This paper aims at summarising methodological foundations and the state of the art in the rapidly emerging field of material flow accounting and analysis (MFA). It gives a short description of the method starting with the historical development, presenting a general model of economy-wide material flow analysis, [...]
