Connecting global emissions to fundamental human needs and their satisfaction

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Vita, Gibran ^a   Hertwich, Edgar G ^b   Stadler, Konstantin ^a   Wood, Richard ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon energy footprints; environmental sociology; environmentally extended multi regional input output analysis (EXIOBASE); fundamental human needs; Max Neef; mixed methods; sustainable wellbeing

Indexed keywords

CARBON FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY; HUMAN NEEDS; INPUT OUTPUT ANALYSIS; MAX-NEEF; MIXED METHOD; WELLBEING;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

CARBON FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 85062466024     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aae6e0     Document Type: Article

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