Assessing carbon footprints of cities under limited information

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 176, Issue , 2018, Pages 1254-1270

  Fry, Jacob ^a   Lenzen, Manfred ^a   Jin, Yutong ^a   Wakiyama, Takako ^a   Baynes, Timothy ^b   Wiedmann, Thomas ^c   Malik, Arunima ^a   Chen, Guangwu ^c   Wang, Yafei ^d   Geschke, Arne ^a   Schandl, Heinz ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; GREENHOUSES; SUPPLY CHAINS;

DATA AVAILABILITY; EVIDENCE-BASED; FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS; GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN; GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS; INFORMED DECISION; INPUT-OUTPUT TABLE; LIMITED INFORMATION;

CARBON FOOTPRINT;

EID: 85037740177     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.11.073     Document Type: Article

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