Consumption-based material flow indicators - Comparing six ways of calculating the Austrian raw material consumption providing six results

Ecological Economics

Volumn 128, Issue , 2016, Pages 177-186

  Eisenmenger, Nina ^a   Wiedenhofer, Dominik ^a   Schaffartzik, Anke ^a   Giljum, Stefan ^b   Bruckner, Martin ^b   Schandl, Heinz ^c   Wiedmann, Thomas O ^d,e   Lenzen, Manfred ^e   Tukker, Arnold ^f   Koning, Arjan ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Input output analysis; Material flow accounting; Material footprint; Raw material consumption; Resource efficiency; Sustainable resource use

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; NATURAL RESOURCE; RESEARCH WORK; RESOURCE USE;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 84969705737     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.03.010     Document Type: Article

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