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 independent researcher Monika Dittrich and 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.
The revised global data set is now available! You can now access again the data download and visualisation sections! However, please be aware that the trade data is still work in progress and will be finished in the coming weeks.
You will notice a few considerable changes within the different material groups - on the worldwide and/or on the country level. This is due to the following improvements, which have been implemented in this data revision: read more ...
www.materialflows.net is based on the worldwide first comprehensive database on global resource extraction, set up and administrated by SERI (Sustainable Europe Research Institute). SERI's database comprises more than 300 specific material categories. While download and visualisation is possible for 12 aggregated material groups, we now also offer the purchase of more detailed data. Please see our dedicated web space for more details on purchase conditions.
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