Material Flow Analysis: How-to Full Tutorial (Short Online Course)
Channel: Metabolism of Cities
Date: 2022-08-16

In this video you will learn how to carry out a Material Flow Analysis for a city, region or country that will ultimately enable you to do illustrations like these, summarising the material requirements of an economy. 

In a previous video we showed what is Material Flow Analysis and what type of insights you can extract from such a study (see link below). I highly encourage you to watch it before continuing so that you have a better grasp of what I will be talking about now. 

In essence, Material Flow Analysis is the measurement of flows and stocks of a particular system that can be anything from a country, a city or even a company. 

While there are a couple of ways to carry out a Material Flow Analysis, in this video I’ll present to you perhaps the most used approach to measure the flows at the scale of an entire economy (regardless if it’s a national economy or an urban economy). 

The method I will present to you today and which I use quite frequently is called an Economy-Wide Material Flow Analysis. This method was originally develop by a group of researchers in the late 1990s, early 2000s. It has known a couple of iterations since then, but it is used at the EU level and the global level through the UN. 

I hope this video will be useful in your pursuit of carrying out a Material Flow Analysis. If you have any questions or suggestions, please leave them in the comments. 

Chapters

0:00 Introduction
0:40 Short definition of Material Flow Analysis
1:00 Introduction to Economy-Wide Material Flow Analysis
3:30 Overview of the method
12:36 Detailed explanation + examples for France and China
26:20 Material Flow Indicators
30:45 Where to find more information and data
35:00 Material Flow Analysis and Circular Economy

Link to: What is Material Flow Analysis ? (Theory + Examples) - Short Online Course (https://youtu.be/UNuXWhFAJTc)
Link to: What is a SANKEY diagram (+ examples) ?? (https://youtu.be/wKIsxMRNodY)
Link to: How to Make a SANKEY diagram for Free (Step-by-Step) (https://youtu.be/6_7nGDhxShI)

Other links mentioned in the video:
Economy-Wide Material Flow Account Handbook: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3859598/9117556/KS-GQ-18-006-EN-N.pdf/b621b8ce-2792-47ff-9d10-067d2b8aac4b?t=1537260841000 
MFA for France and China: https://materialflows.net/
MFA data and information in Eurostat: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/environment/material-flows-and-resource-productivity 
MFA method from UN Environment: https://www.resourcepanel.org/reports/global-manual-economy-wide-material-flow-accounting  
MFA data for most countries in world for last 50 years: https://www.resourcepanel.org/global-material-flows-database 
MFA and Circular Economy in Europe: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/sankey/circular_economy/sankey.html?geos=EU27&year=2019&unit=G_T&materials=TOTAL&highlight=0&nodeDisagg=0101100100&flowDisagg=false&translateX=200&translateY=70&scale=0.6&language=EN&xyz=89&material=TOTAL 

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