In the context of the transformation toward a "green economy," issues related to natural resource use have rapidly increased in importance in European and international policy debates. The large number of studies applying economy-wide material flow analysis so far mostly produced aggregated...

The inefficient resource use at a time of growing demand is leading to increasing environmental pressure and resources scarcity that will affect Europe and other parts of the world over the next years and decades. Prices for global commodities like oil, raw materials and wheat have been...

In the context of the transformation toward a "green economy," issues related to natural resource use have rapidly increased in importance in European and international policy debates. The large number of studies applying economy-wide material flow analysis so far mostly produced aggregated...

Das Umweltbundesamt veröffentlicht seit dem Jahr 2016 einen nationalen Bericht zur Situation der Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen in Deutschland: "Die Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen in Deutschland" (kurz: "Ressourcenbericht“). Mit diesem Vorhaben soll in Deutschland ein regelmäßiger Bericht...