Since the first issue of the handbook was published in October 2003, the field of material flow analysis (MFA) has developed rapidly, including hundreds of MFA studies all over the globe. MFA methodol
Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlementsbecame urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructurestransporting peo
The concept of a company, city, or region functioning as an anthroposphere, a living organism with metabolic processes, is now widely accepted among professionals within scientific, engineering, and m
