Application of WIO to Industrial Ecology

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with the application of WIO to major tools of IE such as LCA, MFA, LCC (life cycle costing), and its further extensions in various fields of IE. Introducing the use phase, which has remained unconsidered in the previous chapters, into the WIO quantity model yields the WIO-LCA model, which can be used for life cycle inventory analysis. In a similar fashion, its cost counterpart, the WIO-LCC model, is also obtained, which can be used for environmental LCC. A new method of MFA, WIO-MFA, is presented, which can consider the physical flows of many materials/substances simultaneously. This method can also be used to transform a monetary IO table into a physical table of the flow of materials. Extensions of WIO to regional models and a linear programming model are also dealt with. NR - 44 PU - SPRINGER PI - DORDRECHT PA - PO BOX 17, 3300 AA DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS