Identifying critical supply chains and final products: An input-output approach to exploring the energy-water-food nexus

Applied Energy

Volumn 210, Issue , 2018, Pages 632-642

  Owen, Anne ^a   Scott, Kate ^a   Barrett, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumption based accounting; Energy water food nexus; Global value chains; Multiregional input output databases; Structural path analysis

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXTRACTION; FOOD SUPPLY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CONSUMPTION-BASED ACCOUNTING; ENERGY; ENERGY-WATER-FOOD NEXUS; ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTINGS; GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN; INPUT-OUTPUT; INPUT-OUTPUT APPROACH; MULTIREGIONAL INPUT-OUTPUT DATABASE; PATH ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL PATH ANALYSE;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD WASTE; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER RESOURCE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85029675101     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.09.069     Document Type: Article

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