Enhancing Sustainability in Forestry Using Material Flow Cost Accounting

Material Flow Cost Accounting as an Approach to Improve Resource Efficiency in Manufacturing Companies

What potentials do manufacturing companies have for identifying inefficiencies in their use of resources? Assessing the products with regard to their durability, functional usefulness, use of materials, etc. is only one aspect of the exercise. The actual production operations and the search for in-plant inefficiencies represent the other. In Germany, the material flow cost accounting (MFCA) met...

Sustainability and National Accounting

Material Flow in Rotary Drums

The experimental investigation of material flow in rotary drums is studied. An equipment in the size of pilot-scale was used to collect experimental data for investigation of validity of the conventional steady-state model of material flow in rotary drums. Also, the transient data of the time required for material movement in the empty drum up to any specified cross section are also reported. T...

Sustainability Analysis for a Forestry Management Model

This paper deals with sustainability in forestry management. We study a dynamic control system within the mathematical framework of viability analysis. In particular, we use the concept of viability kernel to reveal sustainable harvesting policies and sustainable resource states. An example illustrates the general statements.

Raw Material Equivalents: The Challenges of Accounting for Sustainability in a Globalized World

The indicator domestic material consumption (domestic extraction + imports – exports) is widely used to track the scale, composition, and dynamics of material use. As production increasingly occurs at a spatial distance from the demand it ultimately satisfies, new accounting challenges arise that this indicator may not be able to meet. In response, indicators in raw material equivalents (RME) h...