A global, scope-based carbon footprint modeling for effective carbon reduction policies: Lessons from the Turkish manufacturing

Sustainable Production and Consumption

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 47-66

  Kucukvar, Murat ^a   Egilmez, Gokhan ^b   Onat, Nuri Cihat ^c   Samadi, Hamidreza ^a  

^a ISTANBUL SEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN   (United States)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Multi Region Input Output Modeling (MRIO); Scope 1, 2 and 3; Sustainable manufacturing and supply chain; Time series; World Input Output Database (WIOD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944096434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23525509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2015.05.005     Document Type: Article

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