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FLOWSA and USEPA Data Management
Citation:
Birney, C. AND W. Ingwersen. FLOWSA and USEPA Data Management. Food System LCA MOU Workgroup, Cincinnati, OH, November 15, 2023.
Impact/Purpose:
To share an overview of FLOWSA and USEPA data management strategies with the Food System LCA MOU workgroup. In this presentation we describe one of those tools, FLOWSA, a Python package developed to streamline attributing environmental, economic, and other data to sectors. We demonstrate the steps taken to automate accessing source data, generating models, and documenting metadata.
Description:
The USEPA has developed several tools for industrial ecology modeling (https://www.epa.gov/land-research/tools-industrial-ecology-modeling-tiem). These tools are developed to be transparent, user-friendly, and updateable. In this presentation we describe one of those tools, FLOWSA, a Python package developed to streamline attributing environmental, economic, and other data to sectors. We demonstrate the steps taken to automate accessing source data, generating models, and documenting metadata.