International society for Industrial Ecology

Decoupling well-being from resource use and its associated environmental impacts through resource efficiency and circular economy has become the mainstream agenda for sustainable development. Resource productivity and material flow indicators have been widely used to evaluate resource decoupling. Several approaches have been introduced in Europe to...

Developing methodology to evaluate decoupling economic growth from environmental impacts of materials use in Japan. The study estimates environmental impact at macro level associated with material use using MFA and LCA.