Material flow analysis between dynamic modelling and life cycle assessment

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The tasks of environmental management and engineering are manifold. Computer-based environmental information systems and tools need to gather data and provide information for life cycle assessments, eco-balances, environmental management systems, environmental risk assessments, eco-efficiency analyses, and so on. So far, no single approach serves all the different purposes. This paper elaborates the potential of material and energy flow networks to become an underlying concept for the various tasks of environmental management and engineering. The paper states that 'hybrid material flow analysis', a component-based advancement of material flow analysis, allows to integrate both, the data processing and the modelling perspective of environmental information systems and tools.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationITEE 2005 - 2nd International ICSC Symposium on Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering, Proceedings
EditorsWalter Leal Filho, Jorge Marx Gómez, Claus Rautenstrauch
Number of pages16
PublisherShaker Verlag
Publication date2005
Pages552-567
ISBN (Print)3832243623, 9783832243623
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Event2nd International ICSC Symposium on Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering - ITEE 2005 - Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Duration: 25.09.200527.09.2005
Conference number: 2
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    Research areas

  • Sustainability sciences, Communication
  • Continuous simulation, Discrete event simulation, Dynamic material flow analysis, Dynamic modelling, Environmental information system, Life cycle assessment, Material flow analysis, Static material flow analysis, System dynamics