Swedish experience using environmental accounts data for integrated product policy issues

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 57-72

  Palm, Viveka ^a   Wadeskog, Anders ^a   Finnveden, Göran ^b  

^a STATISTICS SWEDEN   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Consumption; Environmental pressure; Extended producer responsibility (EPR); Input output analysis (IOA); Product groups; Sweden

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PUBLIC POLICY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS; EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY (EPR); INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS (IOA);

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; POLICY MAKING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33750607450     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: 15309290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jiec.2006.10.3.57     Document Type: Article

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