ENBUS204 Lecture 6: Lecture 6

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Environment and Business
• Course: ENBUS204
• Professor: Komal Habib

Document Summary

Change in stock = input output. Study of metabolism of human body (santorio): analyze the material flows in a human body. Input: foods, drinks: output: feces, urine, sweat, respiration, stock: body weight. Application of materials flow analysis: environmental management and engineering: environmental impact statements. Industrial ecology: creating loop-closing industrial practices: resource management: mfa is the basis for modeling resource consumption as well as changes in stocks, and therefore it is important in forecasting the scarcity of resources. Mfa is helpful in identifying the accumulation and depletion of materials in natural and anthropogenic environments: waste management: mfa is a valuable tool in substance management because it can cost-efficiently determine the elemental composition of wastes exactly. Mfa is also helpful in investigating the substance management of.