International trade leads to a spatial disconnect of production and consumption. The consideration of upstream resource requirements allows for complementing territorial resource use with global resource use induced by domestic final demand. SEC contributes to the development of methods to account for upstream resource use and the analysis of derived indicators, i.e. raw material consumption also termed material footprint. Most of the research was funded by the Austrian Ministry of the Environment.

  • Consumption-based Material Flow Accounting. Austrian Trade and Consumption in Raw Material Equivalents 1995–2007. (Schaffartzik et al. 2014a)
  • What Drives Austrian Raw Material Consumption? A Structural Decomposition Analysis for the Years 1995 to 2007. (Wenzlik et al. 2015)
  • Raw Material Equivalents: The Challenges of Accounting for Sustainability in a Globalized World. (Schaffartzik et al. 2015)
  • Consumption-based material flow indicators — Comparing six ways of calculating the Austrian raw material consumption providing six results. (Eisenmenger et al. 2016)
  • International Trade Drives Global Resource Use. (Plank et al. 2018)