Raw material equivalents: The challenges of accounting for sustainability in a globalized world

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5345-5370

  Schaffartzik, Anke ^a   Wiedenhofer, Dominik ^a   Eisenmenger, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Indicators; Input output analysis; Material flow accounting; Material footprint; Monetary accounting; Physical accounting; Raw material equivalents; Trade

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ANALYSIS; GLOBALIZATION; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; POLITICAL RELATIONS; SUSTAINABILITY;

WORLD;

EID: 84934875918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su7055345     Document Type: Article

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