Development of water footprint inventory database on Japanese goods and services distinguishing the types of water resources and the forms of water uses based on input-output analysis

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1456-1467

  Ono, Yuya ^a   Motoshita, Masaharu ^b,c   Itsubo, Norihiro ^a  

^a TOKYO CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Input output analysis; Inventory database; Water consumption; Water footprint; Water input; Water resource types

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; GROUND WATER; RAIN; RIVER WATER;

ARTICLE; CROP PRODUCTION; DATA BASE; HOUSEHOLD; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; JAPAN; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA; WATER FOOTPRINT; WATER FOOTPRINT INVENTORY DATABASE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84941317761     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-015-0928-1     Document Type: Article

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