Environmental and resource footprints in a global context: Europe's structural deficit in resource endowments

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 40, Issue , 2016, Pages 171-181

  Tukker, Arnold ^a,c   Bulavskaya, Tanya ^a   Giljum, Stefan ^b   de Koning, Arjan ^c   Lutter, Stephan ^b   Simas, Moana ^d   Stadler, Konstantin ^d   Wood, Richard ^d  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Europe; EXIOBASE; Land footprint; Materials footprint; Water footprint

Indexed keywords

CARBON FOOTPRINT; DATABASE; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EUROPEAN UNION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; POLICY MAKING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WATER FOOTPRINT;

CHINA; EUROPE;

EID: 84982843353     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.07.002     Document Type: Article

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