Canellas, Sílvia; Gonzalez, Ana Citlalic; Puig, Ignasi; … - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 4 (2004) 4, pp. 229-241
Material throughput is a means of measuring the so-called social metabolism, or physical dimensions of a society's consumption, and can be taken as an indirect and approximate indicator of sustainability. Material flow accounting can be used to test the dematerialisation hypothesis, the idea...
