Terminology

So far, there is no consistent terminology for MRIO systems and parameters in the scientific community. For BoARIO, the following terminology is used (the alias columns are other names and abbreviations often found in the literature):

BoARIO terminology	Description	Aliases
Region	An economic region represented in the MRIO considered	/
Sector	An economic sector represented in the MRIO considered (which most often both designate the sector itself and what it produces)	Branch, product
Industry	A sector in a region, ie a (region,sector) couple.	Firm
Input	An intermediate input used by an industry to produce (which corresponds to a sector)	/
Inventories / (Inputs) stocks	A ‘buffer’ of intermediate input available to an industry	/
Direct losses	The productive capital destroyed by an event, leading to a reduction of production capacity for the affected industries (Stock)	Asset damages, direct damages
Direct production losses	The amount of production not realised (ie lost) due to the production capacity being reduced by direct losses. (Flow)	/
Indirect (production) losses	The amount of production indirectly lost consequent to the direct production losses.	/
Production	The gross output of industries	/
Overproduction	The capacity of an industry to temporarily increase its production to meet an increased demand.	/
Rebuilding / Reconstruction demand	The possible additional demand resulting from the destruction caused by an event requiring rebuilding.	/
Recovering	The recovery of destroyed capital and hence production capacity (without an associated rebuilding demand)	/
Rebuilding	The rebuilding of destroyed capital and hence production capacity (ie recovery via a rebuilding demand)	/
Event	Any shock happening to the model	Shock, Impact