Environmental Impact Assessment of Household Consumption

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 526-536

  Ivanova, Diana ^d   Stadler, Konstantin ^a   Steen Olsen, Kjartan ^a   Wood, Richard ^a   Vita, Gibran ^a   Tukker, Arnold ^b   Hertwich, Edgar G ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

environmentally extended multiregional input output (EE MRIO) analysis; expenditure elasticity; footprint analysis; household environmental impacts; industrial ecology; regression analysis

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ELASTICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPPLY CHAINS; WATER RESOURCES;

ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES; FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS; HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION; HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; INPUT-OUTPUT; PRODUCTS AND SERVICES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84951829793     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: 15309290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12371     Document Type: Article

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