Yale stocks and flows database (YSTAFDB)

This Zenodo upload accompanies a Data Descriptor in Scientific Data, titled "YSTAFDB, a unified database of material stocks and flows for sustainability science". We refer to this database as the Yale stocks and flows database (YSTAFDB). Here, we provide core and supplementary ('hierarchy') tables for YSTAFDB in comma separated value file format. We additionally provide an example of a template that we used to manually prepare data for entry into YSTAFDB. A complete description of YSTAFDB can be found in the Data Descriptor mentioned above. Key properties of YSTAFDB include: 100,000+ material cycles, criticality, and recycling data records quantitative stocks and flows data for 62 elemental cycles and various engineering material cycles data records describing stocks and flows at spatial scales from cities to global, and from the early 1800s to ca. 2013

Myers, R. J., Reck, B. K., & Graedel, T. E. (2019). Yale stocks and flows database (YSTAFDB) (v1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2561882