Fossil fuels: 235 Biomass: 13 Metals: 30 Salt: 854 Sand and gravel: 1 Other non-metallic minerals: 1 Other: 145

Fossil fuels: 1007 Cereals: 32 Roots, tubers: 9 Sugar crops: 28 Pulses: 0 Nuts: 0 Oil-bearing crops: 7 Vegetables: 13 Fruits: 20 Fibres: 0 Other crops (excluding fodder crops) n.e.c. : 1 Crop residues (used): 0 Fodder crops and grazed biomass: 1 Timber (industrial roundwood): 113 Wood fuel and other extraction: 14 Wild fish catch: 5 All other aquatic animals and plants: 1 Live animals (excluding wild fish, aquatic plants and animals, hunted and gathered animals): 1 Meat and meat preparations: 65 Dairy products, bird eggs, and honey: 25 Other products from animals: 0 Metals: 71 Non-metallic minerals: 244 Other: 438

Salt production has long been Inaguas main industry, and the island is perfect for it because the climate is mostly dry. It began in the late 1930s, when three American brothers, the Ericksons, came to the island and built a mechanized salt operation. Known for seawater salt recovery, the Morton Salt Company bought the facility from the Erickson brothers in 1954. This site, comprising 300,000 acres on Great Inagua, produces about a million pounds of salt per year‚ the second largest saline operation in North America.

This dataset showcases the material intensity (MI) of airport runways and seaport platform during 2016. It outlines the material composition by type (asphalt, concrete, base, and sub-base materials), including the layer thickness, volume per square meter, corresponding densities, and total weight. These values provide inputs for estimating material stocks in relation with transport infrastructure in The Bahamas.

This dataset provides the material intensity (MI) of buildings in The Bahamas by sector for the year 2021. It showcases values for residential, commercial, industrial, governmental, and other buildings, with a breakdown by primary construction materials such as concrete, timber, and steel. This dataset provides an overview for estimating construction-related material stocks and material demand across different buildings in the Bahamas.

This dataset provides material intensity (MI) values for various building structural types in The Bahamas. It showcases the amount of construction material used per unit area (m²) for four types of building structures throughout 2021. This dataset provides an overview for assessing the construction material stocks in Bahamas,

This dataset showcases the amount of combustion waste in 2018 within the island of Bahamas. It highlights material weight, ash content, and ash weight. It includes materials like hydrocarbon, coal and woodfuel. This dataset seeks to provide an overview of Bahamas' combustion waste accumulation.

This dataset showcases the amount of livestock and manure production in 2018 within the island of Bahamas. It highlights the number of livestock, manure production per day, dry matter of manure, and the total manure production. The animals included are cattle, chickens, goats, horses, and pigs. This provides a brief overview of Bahamas' livestock and manure production.

This dataset provides the material intensity (MI) for two types of road infrastructure—Major and Minor Subdivisions in The Bahamas during 2004. It involves providing details on road sections, including thickness, volume, and density of materials (such as asphalt, base material and concrete components). This dataset is helpful in estimating how much each material is used in different road types on the island.

This dataset provides a Material Flow Analysis (MFA) of the Bahamas in 2018. It involves key indicators such as Domestic Extraction (DE), Imports, Exports, Direct Material Inputs (DMI), and Domestic Material Consumption (DMC). It also covers material use (mUse), energetic use (eUse), processed materials, secondary materials, and stock additions (GAS and NAS). Outputs include Construction & Demolition waste, Interim Outputs, and Domestic Processed Outputs (DPO), broken down into emissions and waste.

This dataset showcases the amount of municipal solid waste in 2018 within the island of Bahamas. It breaks down the categories into biomass and materials like metal, plastic, and glass. This dataset seeks to provide an overview of Bahamas' municipal solid waste accumulation.

This dataset showcases the amount of recycled materials in 2018 within the island of Bahamas. It looks at materials like cardboard, oil, batteries, green waste, and aluminium cans. This dataset provides a brief look at Bahamas' recycling accumulation.

Our resource-use dynamics have contributed significantly to the improvement in global material standards of living through the provisioning of essential societal services. Nonetheless, these dynamics have also impacted on the already limited natural resource-base of the Earth system on which we depend. Moreover, the characteristics of a global self-perpetuating resource-use linearity, the growing demand for finite raw materials, the high waste generation that remains unrecovered, and the increasing negative effects of climate change further exacerbate the Earth system’s vulnerabilities and exposure to risks. As such, the resource-use dynamics is posited as an important example of complex systems in need for better understanding, particularly in advancing towards sustainability and build system’s resilience. For resource-stressed settings like small island nations, the analysis of these complex systems is not only crucial, but urgent. Small Island Developing States are often characterized by sustainability challenges like limited resource-bases, reduced waste absorption capacity, a strong dependency on external resources to meet their basic needs, geographic isolation from markets which impact connectivity and resource supply, and natural and built environment that is progressively been threatened by the negative effects of climate change, which amplify the pre-existing vulnerabilities and risks for these territories. Thus, dealing with sustainability would require a deeper understanding of the interactions and trade-offs between the resource-use dynamics and the influences that internal/external factors like climate change have over these. By doing so, the system will have the ability to both contribute to global environment change, but also determine their own vulnerability or resilience to those changes. This thesis analyzes resource-use dynamics from a socio-metabolic research perspective in the context of small islands to enhance resource security and build system’s resilience, by looking into the way in which natural resources are interconnected, influenced, and managed. The analysis is spread across three main empirical Chapters, each of which contribute to advancing the arguments that arise from this work. First, in Chapter 3, the thesis analyzes the shifting resource-baselines of water, energy, and food, emphasizing the intra- and interconnected nature between essential resources and socio-metabolic risk, which builds the foundations for deeper analysis on current and future sustainability in small islands. Then, in Chapter 4, the thesis analyzes and identifies the size and make-up of material and energy flows specific to an individual case study, bringing important quantitative and qualitative insights on the potentials that reconfigured resource-use patterns may offer to minimizing or reducing socio-metabolic risk in small islands. Next, in Chapter 5, the thesis analyzes the role that critical material stocks play in driving resource-use and in furthering sustainable development, emphasizing climate change adaptation strategies to build system’s resilience. The overall framework of this thesis has demonstrated how a better understanding of resource-use dynamics may offer an opportunity to achieve resource security and self-reliance as a resilience building measure in the island context. Finally, this thesis encourages for the development and application of holistic and long-term resource management strategies through inclusive, climate and nature-based solutions that consider the trade-offs and synergies between different resource-use dynamics.

Resource-use patterns may entail systemic risks and cascade effects, which consequently inhibit the ability to deliver socioeconomic services. Identifying resource-use patterns exhibiting systemic risks and reshaping their combinations is a potential lever in realizing the transition to a sustainable, resilient, and resource-secure system. Using an island context to assess the quantity and composition of resource throughput enables a more comprehensive analysis of these risks. This article presents the first mass-balance account of socio-metabolic flows for The Bahamas in 2018, to identify socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects. Socio-metabolic risks are systemic risks related to critical resource availability, material circulation integrity, and (in)equities in cost and benefit distributions. We utilize the economy-wide Material FlowAccounting framework (ew-MFA) to map the material flow patterns across the economy. In 2018, annual direct material input (DMI) was estimated at 9.4 t/cap/yr, of which 60% were imports. High masses of waste (1.4 t/cap/yr) remained unrecovered due to the lack of recycling. Total domestic extraction (DE) were dominated by non-metallic minerals with more than 80%, while marine biomass makes up barely 1% of total DE. Due to its linear, undiversified metabolism, and heavy imports dependency, the system is susceptible to socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects including low levels of self-sufficiency, high vulnerability to shocks, commodity price fluctuations, threats to sensitive ecosystems, health impacts, and economic losses, among others. A holistic resource management strategy and nature-based solutions (NBS) that consider the tradeoffs and synergies between different resource-use patterns are critical when exploring potential plans for metabolic risk reduction. Livestock heads - Year 2018 Cattle: 9295 Chicken: 3036000 Goat: 9200 Horse: 74 Pig: 47000

Resource-use patterns may entail systemic risks and cascade effects, which consequently inhibit the ability to deliver socioeconomic services. Identifying resource-use patterns exhibiting systemic risks and reshaping their combinations is a potential lever in realizing the transition to a sustainable, resilient, and resource-secure system. Using an island context to assess the quantity and composition of resource throughput enables a more comprehensive analysis of these risks. This article presents the first mass-balance account of socio-metabolic flows for The Bahamas in 2018, to identify socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects. Socio-metabolic risks are systemic risks related to critical resource availability, material circulation integrity, and (in)equities in cost and benefit distributions. We utilize the economy-wide Material Flow Accounting framework (ew-MFA) to map the material flow patterns across the economy. In 2018, annual direct material input (DMI) was estimated at 9.4 t/cap/yr, of which 60% were imports. High masses of waste (1.4 t/cap/yr) remained unrecovered due to the lack of recycling. Total domestic extraction (DE) were dominated by non-metallic minerals with more than 80%, while marine biomass makes up barely 1% of total DE. Due to its linear, undiversified metabolism, and heavy imports dependency, the system is susceptible to socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects including low levels of self-sufficiency, high vulnerability to shocks, commodity price fluctuations, threats to sensitive ecosystems, health impacts, and economic losses, among others. A holistic resource management strategy and nature-based solutions (NBS) that consider the tradeoffs and synergies between different resource-use patterns are critical when exploring potential plans for metabolic risk reduction. Domestic Extraction - Forestry (in Kilotonnes) - Year 2018 Timber (Industrial roundwood): 33.488 Wood fuel and other extraction: 48.399

Resource-use patterns may entail systemic risks and cascade effects, which consequently inhibit the ability to deliver socioeconomic services. Identifying resource-use patterns exhibiting systemic risks and reshaping their combinations is a potential lever in realizing the transition to a sustainable, resilient, and resource-secure system. Using an island context to assess the quantity and composition of resource throughput enables a more comprehensive analysis of these risks. This article presents the first mass-balance account of socio-metabolic flows for The Bahamas in 2018, to identify socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects. Socio-metabolic risks are systemic risks related to critical resource availability, material circulation integrity, and (in)equities in cost and benefit distributions. We utilize the economy-wide Material Flow Accounting framework (ew-MFA) to map the material flow patterns across the economy. In 2018, annual direct material input (DMI) was estimated at 9.4 t/cap/yr, of which 60% were imports. High masses of waste (1.4 t/cap/yr) remained unrecovered due to the lack of recycling. Total domestic extraction (DE) were dominated by non-metallic minerals with more than 80%, while marine biomass makes up barely 1% of total DE. Due to its linear, undiversified metabolism, and heavy imports dependency, the system is susceptible to socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects including low levels of self-sufficiency, high vulnerability to shocks, commodity price fluctuations, threats to sensitive ecosystems, health impacts, and economic losses, among others. A holistic resource management strategy and nature-based solutions (NBS) that consider the tradeoffs and synergies between different resource-use patterns are critical when exploring potential plans for metabolic risk reduction. *Municipal Solid Waste ( in Kilotonnes) - Year 2018 Food and Green: 132.6 Glass: 10.2 Metal: 7.65 Paper/cardboard: 33.15 Plastic: 30.6 Rubber and leather: 1.28 Wood: 1.28 Other: 38.25 *Demolition and Discard waste (in Kilotonnes) Concrete: 109.2 Asphalt concrete: 23.4 Wood: 1092 Asphalt shingles: 3.9 Brick/clay: 3.63 Drywall/plaster: 3.18 Steel: 1.32 *Recycled materials (in tonnes) Carboard: 236 Oil (biodiesel): 86 Batteries: 139 Green waste (garden/compost): 6,480 Aluminum Cans: 0.2

Resource-use patterns may entail systemic risks and cascade effects, which consequently inhibit the ability to deliver socioeconomic services. Identifying resource-use patterns exhibiting systemic risks and reshaping their combinations is a potential lever in realizing the transition to a sustainable, resilient, and resource-secure system. Using an island context to assess the quantity and composition of resource throughput enables a more comprehensive analysis of these risks. This article presents the first mass-balance account of socio-metabolic flows for The Bahamas in 2018, to identify socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects. Socio-metabolic risks are systemic risks related to critical resource availability, material circulation integrity, and (in)equities in cost and benefit distributions. We utilize the economy-wide Material Flow Accounting framework (ew-MFA) to map the material flow patterns across the economy. In 2018, annual direct material input (DMI) was estimated at 9.4 t/cap/yr, of which 60% were imports. High masses of waste (1.4 t/cap/yr) remained unrecovered due to the lack of recycling. Total domestic extraction (DE) were dominated by non-metallic minerals with more than 80%, while marine biomass makes up barely 1% of total DE. Due to its linear, undiversified metabolism, and heavy imports dependency, the system is susceptible to socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects including low levels of self-sufficiency, high vulnerability to shocks, commodity price fluctuations, threats to sensitive ecosystems, health impacts, and economic losses, among others. A holistic resource management strategy and nature-based solutions (NBS) that consider the tradeoffs and synergies between different resource-use patterns are critical when exploring potential plans for metabolic risk reduction. Domestic Extraction - Mining (in Kilotonnes) - Year 2018 Sand and Gravel: 361 Salt: 854.223 Other Non-metallic minerals: 45

Resource-use patterns may entail systemic risks and cascade effects, which consequently inhibit the ability to deliver socioeconomic services. Identifying resource-use patterns exhibiting systemic risks and reshaping their combinations is a potential lever in realizing the transition to a sustainable, resilient, and resource-secure system. Using an island context to assess the quantity and composition of resource throughput enables a more comprehensive analysis of these risks. This article presents the first mass-balance account of socio-metabolic flows for The Bahamas in 2018, to identify socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects. Socio-metabolic risks are systemic risks related to critical resource availability, material circulation integrity, and (in)equities in cost and benefit distributions. We utilize the economy-wide Material Flow Accounting framework (ew-MFA) to map the material flow patterns across the economy. In 2018, annual direct material input (DMI) was estimated at 9.4 t/cap/yr, of which 60% were imports. High masses of waste (1.4 t/cap/yr) remained unrecovered due to the lack of recycling. Total domestic extraction (DE) were dominated by non-metallic minerals with more than 80%, while marine biomass makes up barely 1% of total DE. Due to its linear, undiversified metabolism, and heavy imports dependency, the system is susceptible to socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects including low levels of self-sufficiency, high vulnerability to shocks, commodity price fluctuations, threats to sensitive ecosystems, health impacts, and economic losses, among others. A holistic resource management strategy and nature-based solutions (NBS) that consider the tradeoffs and synergies between different resource-use patterns are critical when exploring potential plans for metabolic risk reduction. Buildings and Infrastructure stocks (in Kilotonnes) - Year 2018 Gross Addition to Stocks: Biomass: 116 Metals: 33 Non-metallic minerals: 637 Other: 223

Resource-use patterns may entail systemic risks and cascade effects, which consequently inhibit the ability to deliver socioeconomic services. Identifying resource-use patterns exhibiting systemic risks and reshaping their combinations is a potential lever in realizing the transition to a sustainable, resilient, and resource-secure system. Using an island context to assess the quantity and composition of resource throughput enables a more comprehensive analysis of these risks. This article presents the first mass-balance account of socio-metabolic flows for The Bahamas in 2018, to identify socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects. Socio-metabolic risks are systemic risks related to critical resource availability, material circulation integrity, and (in)equities in cost and benefit distributions. We utilize the economy-wide Material Flow Accounting framework (ew-MFA) to map the material flow patterns across the economy. In 2018, annual direct material input (DMI) was estimated at 9.4 t/cap/yr, of which 60% were imports. High masses of waste (1.4 t/cap/yr) remained unrecovered due to the lack of recycling. Total domestic extraction (DE) were dominated by non-metallic minerals with more than 80%, while marine biomass makes up barely 1% of total DE. Due to its linear, undiversified metabolism, and heavy imports dependency, the system is susceptible to socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects including low levels of self-sufficiency, high vulnerability to shocks, commodity price fluctuations, threats to sensitive ecosystems, health impacts, and economic losses, among others. A holistic resource management strategy and nature-based solutions (NBS) that consider the tradeoffs and synergies between different resource-use patterns are critical when exploring potential plans for metabolic risk reduction. Domestic Extraction - Fishing (in Kilotonnes) - Year 2018 Wild fish catch: 0.39 All other aquatic animals and plants : 11.03

Resource-use patterns may entail systemic risks and cascade effects, which consequently inhibit the ability to deliver socioeconomic services. Identifying resource-use patterns exhibiting systemic risks and reshaping their combinations is a potential lever in realizing the transition to a sustainable, resilient, and resource-secure system. Using an island context to assess the quantity and composition of resource throughput enables a more comprehensive analysis of these risks. This article presents the first mass-balance account of socio-metabolic flows for The Bahamas in 2018, to identify socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects. Socio-metabolic risks are systemic risks related to critical resource availability, material circulation integrity, and (in)equities in cost and benefit distributions. We utilize the economy-wide Material Flow Accounting framework (ew-MFA) to map the material flow patterns across the economy. In 2018, annual direct material input (DMI) was estimated at 9.4 t/cap/yr, of which 60% were imports. High masses of waste (1.4 t/cap/yr) remained unrecovered due to the lack of recycling. Total domestic extraction (DE) were dominated by non-metallic minerals with more than 80%, while marine biomass makes up barely 1% of total DE. Due to its linear, undiversified metabolism, and heavy imports dependency, the system is susceptible to socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects including low levels of self-sufficiency, high vulnerability to shocks, commodity price fluctuations, threats to sensitive ecosystems, health impacts, and economic losses, among others. A holistic resource management strategy and nature-based solutions (NBS) that consider the tradeoffs and synergies between different resource-use patterns are critical when exploring potential plans for metabolic risk reduction. Domestic Material Consumption (in Kilotonnes) - Year 2018 Fossil fuels: 772 Biomass: 588 Metals: 41 Non-metallic minerals: 648 Other: 293

Resource-use patterns may entail systemic risks and cascade effects, which consequently inhibit the ability to deliver socioeconomic services. Identifying resource-use patterns exhibiting systemic risks and reshaping their combinations is a potential lever in realizing the transition to a sustainable, resilient, and resource-secure system. Using an island context to assess the quantity and composition of resource throughput enables a more comprehensive analysis of these risks. This article presents the first mass-balance account of socio-metabolic flows for The Bahamas in 2018, to identify socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects. Socio-metabolic risks are systemic risks related to critical resource availability, material circulation integrity, and (in)equities in cost and benefit distributions. We utilize the economy-wide Material Flow Accounting framework (ew-MFA) to map the material flow patterns across the economy. In 2018, annual direct material input (DMI) was estimated at 9.4 t/cap/yr, of which 60% were imports. High masses of waste (1.4 t/cap/yr) remained unrecovered due to the lack of recycling. Total domestic extraction (DE) were dominated by non-metallic minerals with more than 80%, while marine biomass makes up barely 1% of total DE. Due to its linear, undiversified metabolism, and heavy imports dependency, the system is susceptible to socio-metabolic risks and cascading effects including low levels of self-sufficiency, high vulnerability to shocks, commodity price fluctuations, threats to sensitive ecosystems, health impacts, and economic losses, among others. A holistic resource management strategy and nature-based solutions (NBS) that consider the tradeoffs and synergies between different resource-use patterns are critical when exploring potential plans for metabolic risk reduction. Domestic Extraction - Agriculture (in Kilotonnes) - Year 2018 Cereals: 1 Roots, tubers: 3 Sugar crops: 57 Pulses: 0 Nuts: 0 Oil-bearing crops: 3 Vegetables: 32 Fruits: 52 Fibres: 0 Other crops (excluding fodder crops) n.e.c. : 11 Crop residues: 0 Fodder crops and grazed biomass: 0

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