Yale stocks and flows database (YSTAFDB)

<p>This Zenodo upload accompanies a Data Descriptor in <em>Scientific Data</em>, titled &quot;YSTAFDB, a unified database of material stocks and flows for sustainability science&quot;. We refer to this database as the Yale stocks and flows database (YSTAFDB).</p> <p>Here, we provide core and&nbsp;supplementary (&#39;hierarchy&#39;) 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.</p> <p>A complete description of YSTAFDB can be found in the Data Descriptor mentioned above. Key properties of YSTAFDB include:</p> <ul> <li>100,000+ material cycles, criticality, and recycling data records</li> <li>quantitative stocks and flows data for 62 elemental cycles and various engineering material cycles</li> <li>data records describing stocks and flows at spatial scales from cities to global, and from the early 1800s to ca. 2013</li> </ul>