Implications of Material Flow Cost Accounting for Life Cycle Engineering
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Implications of Material Flow Cost Accounting for Life Cycle Engineering. / Viere, Tobias; Prox, Martina; Möller, Andreas et al.
Glocalized Solutions for Sustainability in Manufacturing: Proceedings of the 18th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, May 2nd - 4th, 2011. ed. / Jürgen Hesselbach; Christoph Herrmann. 1. ed. Springer, 2011. p. 652-656.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Implications of Material Flow Cost Accounting for Life Cycle Engineering
AU - Viere, Tobias
AU - Prox, Martina
AU - Möller, Andreas
AU - Schmidt, Mario
N1 - Conference code: 3
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper describes the basic idea of Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) and explores its usefulness for environmental and life cycle engineering. It argues that a better understanding and assessment of costs related to waste flows incentivizes engineers as well as managers to constantly increase resource and energy efficiency. The paper proceeds to explore MFCA beyond its current methodological limitations by highlighting its potential benefits for life cycle and carbon footprint assessments as well as its usefulness for assessing the financial and environmental consequences of material flow loops in production.
AB - This paper describes the basic idea of Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) and explores its usefulness for environmental and life cycle engineering. It argues that a better understanding and assessment of costs related to waste flows incentivizes engineers as well as managers to constantly increase resource and energy efficiency. The paper proceeds to explore MFCA beyond its current methodological limitations by highlighting its potential benefits for life cycle and carbon footprint assessments as well as its usefulness for assessing the financial and environmental consequences of material flow loops in production.
KW - Environmental informatics
KW - LCE
KW - Energy and resource efficiency
KW - Life cycle engineering
KW - Material Flow Cost Accounting
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
KW - Energy and resource efficiency
KW - Life cycle engineering
KW - Material Flow Cost Accounting
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80052122189&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-19692-8_113
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-19692-8_113
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
SN - 978-3-642-19691-1
SP - 652
EP - 656
BT - Glocalized Solutions for Sustainability in Manufacturing
A2 - Hesselbach, Jürgen
A2 - Herrmann, Christoph
PB - Springer
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering - LCE 2011
Y2 - 2 May 2011 through 4 May 2011
ER -