Added Values of Time Series in Material Flow Analysis: The Austrian Phosphorus Budget from 1990 to 2011.

ABSTRACT: Material flow analysis is a tool that is increasingly used as a foundation for resource management and environmental protection. This tool is primarily applied in a static manner to individual years, ignoring the impact of time on the material budgets. In this study, a detailed multiyear model of the Austrian phosphorus budget covering the period 1990-2011 was built to investigate its behavior over time and test the hypothesis that a multiyear approach can also contribute to the improvement of static budgets. Further, a novel method was applied to investigate the quality and characteristics of the data and quantify the uncertainty. The degree of change between the budgets was assessed and showed that approximately half of the flows have changed significantly and, at times, abruptly since 1

SUBMITTER: Zoboli O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5217078 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature