Identifying priority areas for European resource policies: a MRIO-based material footprint assessment

Journal of Economic Structures

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Giljum, Stefan ^a   Wieland, Hanspeter ^a   Lutter, Stephan ^a   Bruckner, Martin ^a   Wood, Richard ^b   Tukker, Arnold ^c,d   Stadler, Konstantin ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Material footprint; Multi regional input output analysis; Production layer decomposition; Resource policies; Supply chains

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020826572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21932409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40008-016-0048-5     Document Type: Article

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