Tracking urban carbon footprints from production and consumption perspectives

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Lin, Jianyi ^a,b   Hu, Yuanchao ^a,b   Cui, Shenghui ^a,b   Kang, Jiefeng ^a,b   Ramaswami, Anu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Xiamen Key Lab of Urban Metabolism   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

consumption based accounting; emissions embodied in trade; production based accounting; purely geographic accounting; urban carbon footprint

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

CARBON MITIGATION; CONSUMPTION PATTERNS; IMPORT AND EXPORTS; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT; PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION; PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY; RESEARCH RESULTS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS;

CARBON FOOTPRINT;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; GOODS EXCHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MANUFACTURING; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; REGIONAL TRADE; TRACKING; URBAN AREA;

CHINA; EUROPE; FUJIAN; NORTH AMERICA; TAIWAN; XIAMEN;

EID: 84930225137     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/5/054001     Document Type: Article

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