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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/ab7f63
	Shifting economic activity to services has limited potential to reduce global environmental impacts due to the household consumption of labour
	Greenford D.H.; Crownshaw T.; Lesk C.; Stadler K.; Matthews H.D.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	17489318
卷号	15 期号:6
英文摘要	The tertiary (or 'service') sector is commonly identified as a relatively clean part of the economy. Accordingly, sustainable development policy routinely invokes 'tertiarization' - a shift from primary and secondary sectors to the tertiary sector - as a means of decoupling economic growth from environmental damages. However, this argument does not account for environmental impacts related to the household consumption of tertiary sector employees. Here we show using a novel analytical framework that when the household consumption of labour is treated as a necessary and endogenous input to production, the environmental impacts of all sectors converge. This shift in perspective also exacerbates existing disparities in the attribution of environmental impact from economic activity among developed and developing economies. Our findings suggest that decoupling of economic activity from environmental impacts is unlikely to be achieved by transitioning to a service-based economy alone, but rather, that reducing environmental damages from economic activity may require fundamental changes to the scale and composition of consumption across all economic sectors. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
英文关键词	climate impacts; decoupling; green growth; input-output; land use; sustainable development; water consumption
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Economics; Service industry; Sustainable development; Developing economies; Economic activities; Economic growths; Economic sectors; Environmental damage; Fundamental changes; Global environmental impacts; Household Consumption; Environmental impact; analytical framework; damage; economic activity; economic growth; environmental economics; environmental impact; environmental policy; global perspective; household survey; labor; sustainable development
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/153979
作者单位	Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, United States; Industrial Ecology Programme, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Greenford D.H.,Crownshaw T.,Lesk C.,et al. Shifting economic activity to services has limited potential to reduce global environmental impacts due to the household consumption of labour[J],2020,15(6).
APA	Greenford D.H.,Crownshaw T.,Lesk C.,Stadler K.,&Matthews H.D..(2020).Shifting economic activity to services has limited potential to reduce global environmental impacts due to the household consumption of labour.Environmental Research Letters,15(6).
MLA	Greenford D.H.,et al."Shifting economic activity to services has limited potential to reduce global environmental impacts due to the household consumption of labour".Environmental Research Letters 15.6(2020).