Trends in Japanese households' critical-metals material footprints

Ecological Economics

Volumn 119, Issue , 2015, Pages 118-126

  Shigetomi, Yosuke ^a,b,c   Nansai, Keisuke ^b   Kagawa, Shigemi ^d   Tohno, Susumu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Critical metal; Household consumption; Low carbon technology; Material footprint; Multiregional input output analysis

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COMMODITY MARKET; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; EXTRACTION; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; NEODYMIUM; PLATINUM; RECYCLING; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS;

JAPAN;

EID: 84940865109     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.08.010     Document Type: Article

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