Update of national and international resource use indicators

Authors: Monika Dittrich, Stefan Giljum, Stephan Lutter, Christine Polzin

The study “Update of national and international resource use indicators” contains three main parts. In the first part central resource indicators for Germany such as Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) and ⁠Total Material Requirement⁠ (⁠TMR⁠) were updated until 2008. The final part of the study identifies further research questions that will need to be addressed in order to improve the quality of selected indicators of material analysis.