Data and visualisations provided on www.materialflows.net are meant to support data driven research and (policy) activities. The user stories present selected examples of MFA in practice. If you have your own story to tell, let us know how our website helped you.

Book
Published
2020
How Sustainable are the SDGs?
How Sustainable are the SDGs?
[…] there is little acknowledgement of the inherent contradictions between the many goals that require an increase in material flows, and the ecological goals that seek to prevent deterioration of the biosphere.
- Kerryn Higgs
Website Article
Published
2023
Why sustainable lifestyles?
Why sustainable lifestyles?
A sustainable lifestyles approach is not a one size fits all approach – it is a mentality and a filter that should be applied differently within different contexts.
- Sustainable Lifestyles Education Hub
Book
Published
2020
Consumption – What is political economy?
Consumption – What is political economy?
A political economy of consumption centres the systemic [point of view]: the needs of a capitalist system for growth, the embeddedness of individual consumption in commodity-specific “systems of provisioning”, and the problems that arise from those systems for people and the planet.
- Mark Hudson, Ian Hudson
Journal Article
Published
2023
Integrating Degrowth and World-Systems Theory: Toward a Research Agenda
Integrating Degrowth and World-Systems Theory: Toward a Research Agenda
[…] the excessive material throughput of the Global North is linked to forms of ecological debt with the Global South.
- Mariko Lin Frame
Book
Published
2021
Less is More - How Degrowth Will Save the World
Less is More - How Degrowth Will Save the World
Instead of gradually dematerialising, the global economy has been rematerializing.
- Jason Hickel