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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 the database.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:4766
Date26 December 2014
CreatorsWood, Richard, Stadler, Konstantin, Bulavskaya, Tatyana, Lutter, Franz Stephan, Giljum, Stefan, de Koning, Arjan, Kuenen, Jeroen, Schütz, Helmut, Acosta-Fernández, José, Usubiaga, Arkaitz, Simas, Moana, Ivanova, Olga, Weinzettel, Jan, Schmidt, Jannick, Merciai, Stefano, Tukker, Arnold
PublisherMDPI AG
Source SetsWirtschaftsuniversität Wien
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, PeerReviewed
Formatapplication/pdf
RightsCreative Commons: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Relationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su7010138, http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess, http://epub.wu.ac.at/4766/

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