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Stocks and Flows project

This is the website of an academic group researching stocks and flows of metals.

Modern society is made possible by the use of metals, and metals have historically been supplied from virgin stocks (ore bodies, mineral deposits, and the like). Other reservoirs exist, however, a principal one being materials or products in use, stored, or discarded over the years by corporations and individuals. These reservoirs might become very important in the next few decades of rapid population growth and resource and energy use. There are also concerns about the use of energy in the extraction and processing of metals, and realization that the loss of resources by dissipation or landfilling can sometimes be problematic from an environmental standpoint, and concerns over the short and long-term “criticality” of metals.



In the STAF project, we are evaluating current and historical flows of specific technologically significant materials, determining the stocks available in different types of reservoirs and the flows among the reservoirs, developing scenarios of possible futures of metal use, and assessing metal supply and demand. As of fall 2011, the group has completed work on copper, zinc, chromium, lead, iron, nickel, silver, and stainless steel, comprising complete cycle characterizations for all countries using significant amounts of these materials (more than 50), nine world regions including Europe, North America, and Asia, and the planet as a whole. Targeted studies of a few states and cities have also been accomplished. Specialized studies on tin, cobalt, tungsten, and aluminium have been done as well. These comprehensive cycles, and their interpretation and implications, are published in the scholarly literature as they are completed



Website:

http://cie.research.yale.edu/project_main/stocks-and-flows-project-staf

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Date (Creation)
2011-09-01
Date (Publication)
2011-09-01
Date (Revision)
Citation identifier
https://www.mica-project.eu/ / MICA_B3-186

MICA WP3 2018-11-03T15:16:00 Record extracted from Batch 3 spreadsheet

Other citation details

No other citation details provided

Purpose

Purpose for data generation is not known

Status
On going
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Center for Industrial Ecology

Resource provider
Maintenance and update frequency
Irregular
dataCentre
  • MICA

  • MET4TECH

MICA ontology (TemporalScheme)

  • Mixture of historic (up to 2005) and recent (2006 onwards)

MICA ontology (DataScheme)

  • General descriptive information / Website / Other (Website)

Keywords
  • Requirement for data generation: Voluntary

Keywords
  • Method of data or information generation: Academic research

GEMET Concepts

  • Exports

GEMET Concepts

  • Imports

GEMET Concepts

  • Minerals

GEMET Concepts

  • Other economic activities

GEMET Concepts

  • Prices

GEMET Concepts

  • Production

GEMET Concepts

  • Resources

GEMET Concepts

  • Stocks

GEMET Concepts

  • Waste flows

INSPIRE commodities

  • Silver

INSPIRE commodities

  • Aluminium

INSPIRE commodities

  • Copper

INSPIRE commodities

  • Lead

INSPIRE commodities

  • Tin

INSPIRE commodities

  • Zinc

INSPIRE commodities

  • Chromium

INSPIRE commodities

  • Cobalt

INSPIRE commodities

  • Iron

INSPIRE commodities

  • Nickel

INSPIRE commodities

  • Tungsten

Eurostat Waste categories

  • Aluminium waste

Eurostat Waste categories

  • Mixed metallic packaging

Eurostat Waste categories

  • Artificial mineral waste

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
  • Economy
Geographic identifier
World; with individual countries listed
Hierarchy level
Non geographic dataset
Other

Individual item (e.g. a one-off academic paper or single website)

Conformance result

Title

Data uncertainty

Date
Explanation

Are any uncertainty measures provided (e.g. standard errors, confidence intervals, etc.)?

Pass
No

Conformance result

Title

Quality assurance procedures

Date
Explanation

Are quality assurance procedures described?

Pass
Yes

Conformance result

Title

Information generation methods

Date
Explanation

Are data or information generation methods formally described?

Pass
Yes

Conformance result

Title

Record review

Date
Other citation details

Reviewed by: British Geological Survey

Explanation

Record validation

Pass
No

Conformance result

Title
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

Organisation source implies that information should be of good quality

Metadata

File identifier
af8e9892-159f-47c8-852a-cedf5f380668 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
MD_CharacterSetCode_utf8
Hierarchy level
Non geographic dataset
Date stamp
2024-11-11
Metadata standard name

ISO19115

Metadata standard version

2003/Cor.1:2006

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

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Point of contact
 
 

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Keywords

MET4TECH MICA


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