Trading away damage: Quantifying environmental leakage through consumption-based, life-cycle analysis

Ecological Economics

Volumn 63, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 563-577

  Ghertner, D Asher ^a   Fripp, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate policy; Environmental leakage; Environmental terms of trade; Industrial outsourcing; Input output analysis; Life cycle assessment

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; OUTSOURCING; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250181739     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.12.010     Document Type: Article

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