From material flow analysis to material flow management Part II: the role of structural agent analysis

摘要: Abstract This paper presents a heuristic for supporting the transition from material flow analysis to management. The combines with newly developed method, structural agent (SAA). latter is based on Giddens structuration theory and provides basis understanding social structures restricting or enabling strategies managing flows. We consider specific advantages of SAA be that it does following: (i) considers interaction dynamics structure human agency and, thus, allows including role factors such as culture in analysis; (ii) cross-level approach allowing study interferences among groups; (iii) different time scales change constraining implementation options improving