Environmental impact from a sector: Production and consumption of energy carriers in Sweden

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 451-470

  Engström, Rebecka ^a   Wadeskog, Anders ^b  

^a Swedish Energy Agency   (Sweden)

^b STATISTICS SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Energy; Environmental systems analysis; Environmentally extended input output analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GAS PRODUCTION; HEAT PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 34047155605     PISSN: 14768917     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PIE.2006.012271     Document Type: Article

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