Environmental Impact Assessment of Household Consumption
@article{Ivanova2016EnvironmentalIA, title={Environmental Impact Assessment of Household Consumption}, author={Diana Ivanova and Konstantin Stadler and Kjartan Steen‐Olsen and Richard Wood and Gibran Vita and Arnold Tukker and Edgar G. Hertwich}, journal={Journal of Industrial Ecology}, year={2016}, volume={20} }
We analyze the environmental impact of household consumption in terms of the material, water, and land‐use requirements, as well as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, associated with the production and use of products and services consumed by these households. Using the new EXIOBASE 2.2 multiregional input‐output database, which describes the world economy at the detail of 43 countries, five rest‐of‐the‐world regions, and 200 product sectors, we are able to trace the origin of the products…
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