Global sustainability accounting : developing EXIOBASE for multi-regional footprint analysis
- Measuring progress towards sustainable development requires appropriate frameworks and databases. The System of Environmental-Economic Accounts (SEEA) is undergoing continuous refinement with these objectives in mind. In SEEA, there is a need for databases to encompass the global dimension of societal metabolism. In this paper, we focus on the latest effort to construct a global multi-regional input-output database (EXIOBASE) with a focus on environmentally relevant activities. The database and its broader analytical framework allows for the as yet most detailed insight into the production-related impacts and "footprints" of our consumption. We explore the methods used to arrive at the database, and some key relationships extracted from theMeasuring progress towards sustainable development requires appropriate frameworks and databases. The System of Environmental-Economic Accounts (SEEA) is undergoing continuous refinement with these objectives in mind. In SEEA, there is a need for databases to encompass the global dimension of societal metabolism. In this paper, we focus on the latest effort to construct a global multi-regional input-output database (EXIOBASE) with a focus on environmentally relevant activities. The database and its broader analytical framework allows for the as yet most detailed insight into the production-related impacts and "footprints" of our consumption. We explore the methods used to arrive at the database, and some key relationships extracted from the database.…
Document Type: | Peer-Reviewed Article |
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Author: | Richard Wood, Konstantin Stadler, Tatyana Bulavskaya, Stephan Lutter, Stefan Giljum, Arjan de Koning, Jeroen Kuenen, Helmut Schütz, José Acosta Fernandez, Arkaitz Usubiaga, Moana Simas, Olga Ivanova, Jan Weinzettel, Jannick H. Schmidt, Stefano Merciai, Arnold Tukker |
URN (citable link): | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-57166 |
DOI (citable link): | https://doi.org/10.3390/su7010138 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Source Title (English): | Sustainability |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 1 |
First Page: | 138 |
Last Page: | 163 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften |
OpenAIRE: | OpenAIRE |
Licence: | Creative Commons - Namensnennung |