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| Author: | Allen, F.W. |
| Title: | Building material flow accounts in the United States: a case study in public sector innovation |
| Journal: | Journal of industrial ecology
2008 : OCT/DEC, VOL. 12:5/6, p. 785-791 |
| Index terms: | decision making environmental policy government innovation natural resources public sector USA |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | It is stated that building a national system of material flow accounts in the United States could be an important step toward natural resource sustainability. But the task will not be simple. The key to understanding the status of and prospects for official material flow accounts in the USA is seeing the picture from the point of view of building the details of the accounts themselves. A simple model of public sector innovation helps explain what is happening and what needs to happen to make further progress. The model used here has four key elements: methods, organizational capacity, demand and actual use. |
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