R-cubed Research: Resources, Raw Materials, Recycling
Description: ,R-cubed-research, Science, Industrial Ecology, Recycling, Resources, Raw Materials, Metal Cycles, Trade Data, Dynamic modelling
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We are a group of young scientists working at Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovations Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe, Germany. Our core fields of research are industrial ecology, particularly material flow analysis (MFA), security of raw material supply and raw material criticality, raw material market models and forecasting methodologies. Via this website we intend to give insight into our research work, present results and methodologies, receive feedback and new contacts, and identify potential busi
The continuously increasing human demand for natural resources, forced by the rapide development of emerging markets in Asia and South America, causes severe ecological damage and increases concerns about raw material availability and a free access to raw material markets. In order to improve resource efficiency, the scientific field of Industrial Ecology was created at the end of the 1980s: Its new idea was an integral view on material flows used in industrial processes. Influenced by the principles of the
An important tool of industrial ecology is the Substance Flow Analysis (SFA): SFA can be seen as a specific instance of the more broadly defined Material Flow Analysis (MFA). A MFA has a defined system in focus, e.g. a geographical region or an industrial process, and tries to track and quantify the material flows both within the system and between the system and the environment (Bringezu, Moriguchi 2002). SFA on the other side is focusing on a specific substance and its way through an industrial process, r
R-cubed Research: Resources, Raw Materials, Recycling