A Material History of Australia: Evolution of Material Intensity and Drivers of Change

Date

2009

Authors

Wood, Richard
Lenzen, Manfred
Foran, Barney

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Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the material history of Australia in the period 1975-2005. The values of economy-wide indicators of material flow roughly trebled since 1975, and we identify the drivers of this change through structural decomposition

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Keywords: Industrial ecology; Input output analysis; Material flow analysis; Material flow analysis (MFA); Resource use; Structural decomposition analysis; Automobile drivers; Economic analysis; International trade; Materials; Natural resources management; Pulsatil Industrial ecology; Input-output analysis (IOA); Material flow analysis (MFA); Mining; Resource use indicators; Structural decomposition analysis

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/54205

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ANU Research Publications

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Journal of Medical Biography

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Journal article

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10.1111/j.1530-9290.2009.00177.x

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2037-12-31

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