Unintended environmental consequences and co-benefits of economic restructuring.

@article{Liang2013UnintendedEC,
  title={Unintended environmental consequences and co-benefits of economic restructuring.},
  author={Sai Liang and Ming Xu and Sangwon Suh and Raymond R. Tan},
  journal={Environmental science \& technology},
  year={2013},
  volume={47 22},
  pages={
          12894-902
        }
}
Current economic restructuring policies have ignored unintended environmental consequences and cobenefits, the understanding of which can provide foundations for effective policy decisions for green economy transformation. Using the input-output life cycle assessment model and taking China as an example, we find that household consumption, fixed capital formation, and export are main drivers to China's environmental impacts. At the product scale, major contributors to environmental impacts vary… 
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