www.materialflows.net is an online portal for material flow data, providing links and access to material flow data sets on the national level.

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Visualisation of global resource extraction

In April 2008, SERI published a comprehensive update of its data base on global resource extraction. Data is now available for almost 200 countries for the time period of 1980 to 2005. As a new feature SERI developed an MFA visualisation tool, which allows users to create world maps illustrating the extraction of specific natural resources and to select and download user-defined MFA data sets.

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Additional Information

» The importance and policy relevance of material flows
» World-wide trends of natural resource use

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In its recently released publication "Environmental Outlook to 2030", the OECD presents results from SERI's global database on material extraction. These results were also included in the new OECD report on "Measuring material flows and resource productivity", where the OECD presents the state of the art and new developments in so-called material flow analysis on the national and international level. The full OECD report on material flows and resource productivity can be downloaded here.