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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.07.002
	Environmental and resource footprints in a global context: Europe's structural deficit in resource endowments
	Tukker A.; Bulavskaya T.; Giljum S.; de Koning A.; Lutter S.; Simas M.; Stadler K.; Wood R.
发表日期	2016
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	40
英文摘要	The European Union (EU) has proposed in its Resource-efficiency roadmap a ‘dashboard of indicators’ consisting of four headline indicators for carbon, water, land and materials. The EU recognizes the need to use a consumption-based (or ‘footprint’) perspective to capture the global dimension of resources and their impacts. In this paper, we analyse how the EU's footprints compare to those of other nations, to what extent the EU and other major economies of the world rely on embodied resource imports, and what the implications are for policy making based on this comparison. This study is the first comprehensive multi-indicator comparison of all four policy relevant indicators, and uses a single consistent global Multi-Regional Input Output (MRIO) database with a unique and high level of product detail across countries. We find that Europe is the only region in the world that relies on net embodied imports for all indicators considered. We further find that the powerful economies of China and others in the Asia-Pacific already dominate global resource consumption from a footprint perspective, while they still haven't reached the prosperity of developed countries. Competition for resources is hence likely to increase, making Europe even more vulnerable. A hot spot analysis suggests that final consumption of food, transport and housing are priorities for reduction efforts along the life cycle. Further, countries with a similar Human Development Index can have very different footprints, pointing at societal organisation at macro-level as option for improvement. This points at options for countries for lowering their footprint, becoming less dependent on embodied imports, while maintaining a high quality of life. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Carbon footprint; Europe; EXIOBASE; Land footprint; Materials footprint; Water footprint
学科领域	carbon footprint; database; developing world; ecological footprint; environmental change; European Union; global perspective; policy making; resource allocation; water footprint; China; Europe
语种	英语
scopus关键词	carbon footprint; database; developing world; ecological footprint; environmental change; European Union; global perspective; policy making; resource allocation; water footprint; China; Europe
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117326
作者单位	Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, Delft, Netherlands; Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Vienna, Austria; Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands; Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Industrial Ecology Program, Trondheim, Norway
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tukker A.,Bulavskaya T.,Giljum S.,et al. Environmental and resource footprints in a global context: Europe's structural deficit in resource endowments[J],2016,40.
APA	Tukker A..,Bulavskaya T..,Giljum S..,de Koning A..,Lutter S..,...&Wood R..(2016).Environmental and resource footprints in a global context: Europe's structural deficit in resource endowments.Global Environmental Change,40.
MLA	Tukker A.,et al."Environmental and resource footprints in a global context: Europe's structural deficit in resource endowments".Global Environmental Change 40(2016).