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

Date

Authors

Wood, Richard

Lenzen, Manfred

Foran, Barney

Publisher

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

Keywords

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

URI

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

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Journal of Medical Biography

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1111/j.1530-9290.2009.00177.x

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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