This volume presents new research on the increasingly important need to account for the use of resources and the dispersion of waste materials. It considers resource accounting both at the process level and at the materials level, offering policy suggestions for waste and resource accounting.

Background - industrial metabolism and materials flow analysis (MFA)
agricultural industries
forest industries
extractive materials - fuels
extractive materials - minerals and metals
chemical industry material flows and wastes - inorganic chemicals
chemical industry material flows and wastes - organic chemicals
lost mass, wastes and toxic or hazardous emissions
counting with dollars - from mass-flow to I-O.