What is Material Flow Analysis ? (Theory + Examples) - Short Online Course
Channel: Metabolism of Cities
Date: 2022-04-01

"Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed." This sentence from Lavoisier, a French chemist, summarises the law of conservation of mass.

In other words, for any system closed to all transfers of matter and energy, the mass of the system must remain constant over time, as the system's mass cannot change, so quantity can neither be added nor be removed.

This mass balance principle sits at the heart of material flow analysis and as you will see is essential for measuring material flows and their associated environmental impacts of companies, cities, regions and even countries. 

This accounting technique is essential to know because it sits at the heart of topics such as circular economy, climate change policies, urban metabolism, doughnut economics, life-cycle assessment, and much more.

In this video you will learn what Material Flow Analysis or MFA is, how it is being used through some examples and what are the insights you can extract from such an analysis.

Chapters

0:00 Introduction
1:29 What is Material Flow Analysis ?
10:40 Steps of a Material Flow Analysis
14:36 What is the purpose of Material Flow Analysis ?
16:42 Theoretical example of Material Flow Analysis
17:57 Real example of Material Flow Analysis
22:34 Take Away

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)



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