www.materialflows.net is an online portal for material flow data, providing access to material flow data sets on the national level. The website is based on the worldwide first comprehensive database on global resource extraction, set up and administrated by SERI (Sustainable Europe Research Institute) in cooperation with the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy.  The database comprises data for more than 200 countries for the time period of 1980 to 2008, aggregated into 12 categories of material flows.

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Data Update 2011

SERI has just finished a project funded by the Austrian Ministry for the Environment focusing on the update of the www.materialflows.net data set. In the course of the update data coverage has been extended until 2008 and earlier data has been revised.

Please note that our database is under constant revision. To keep it up to date and to mend possible data irregularities, we would very much appreciate your comments sent by e-mail to .

Worldmapper: new maps on worldwide resource extraction

As a new feature of www.materialflows.net SERI started a cooperation with the Worldmapper project - www.worldmapper.net - to create world maps, where territories are re-sized to different categories of material flows. Based on SERI's resource extraction data, the worldmapper illustrates the shares of each country in the world's total through „inflating" or „shrinking" the size of countries on a world map. This allows visualising the worldwide distributions on the basis of different parameters in a very demonstrative way. The new maps can be found here.

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REdUSE - REducing Resource Use for a Sustainable Europe

REdUSE is a three year action within European Comissions' EuropeAid strategy "Public awareness and education for development in Europe" which aims at highlighting the global impacts of Europe's growing resource use, focussing on imported resources from the global South and the consequences of resource extraction. This project is being realized by twelve different partners from eleven different countries. All partners except SERI belong to the Friends of the Earth network, a worldwide network of environmental-NGOs. SERI as the scientific partner is responsible for providing the scientific backbone of the project. Just recently SERI and colleagues published the new report "Under Pressure" which investigates the interrelationship between material use and water consumption.

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New report on resource use in Austria

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