The Environmental Impact of Green Consumption and Sufficiency Lifestyles Scenarios in Europe: Connecting Local Sustainability Visions to Global Consequences

Ecological Economics

Volumn 164, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Vita, Gibran ^a,b   Lundström, Johan R ^c   Hertwich, Edgar G ^d   Quist, Jaco ^e   Ivanova, Diana ^a   Stadler, Konstantin ^a   Wood, Richard ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Backcasting; Environmental footprints; Environmentally Extended Multiregional Input Output (EE MRIO); Green consumption; Participatory modelling; Quality of life; Sufficiency; Sustainable lifestyles

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; CARBON FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; LIFESTYLE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SUSTAINABILITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 85067964664     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.05.002     Document Type: Article

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