• Beyond peak emission transfers: historical impacts of globalization and future impacts of climate policies on international emission transfers 

      Wood, Richard; Grubb, Michael; Anger-Kraavi, Annela; Pollitt, Hector; Rizzo, Ben; Alexandri, Eva; Stadler, Konstantin; Moran, Daniel; Hertwich, Edgar; Tukker, Arnold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Globalization of supply chains has resulted in rapid increases in emission transfers from the developing to the developed world. As outsourcing has risen, developed countries have been able to decarbonize domestically, at ...
    • Environmental and resource footprints in a global context: Europe’s structural deficit in resource endowments 

      Tukker, Arnold; Bulavskaya, Tanya; Giljum, Stefan; de Koning, Arjan; Lutter, Stephan; Silva Simas, Moana; Stadler, Konstantin; Wood, Richard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      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 ...
    • EXIOBASE 3: Developing a time series of detailed environmentally extended multi‐regional input‐output tables 

      Stadler, Konstantin; Wood, Richard; Bulavskaya, Tatyana; Södersten, Carl-Johan; Silva Simas, Moana; Schmidt, Sarah; Usubiaga, Arkaitz; Acosta-Fernandez, Jose; Kuenen, Jeroen; Bruckner, Martin; Giljum, Stefan; Lutter, Stephan; Merciai, Stefano; Schmidt, Jannick H.; Theurl, Michaela; Plutzar, Christoph; Kastner, Thomas; Eisenmenger, Nina; Erb, Karl-Heinz; de Koning, Arjan; Tukker, Arnold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Environmentally extended multiregional input‐output (EE MRIO) tables have emerged as a key framework to provide a comprehensive description of the global economy and analyze its effects on the environment. Of the available ...
    • Global Sustainability Accounting - Developing EXIOBASE for Multi-Regional Footprint Analysis 

      Wood, Richard; Stadler, Konstantin; Bulavskaya, Tatyana; Lutter, Stephan; Giljum, Stefan; de Koning, Arjan; Kuenen, Jeroen; Schutz, Helmut; Acosta-Fernandez, Jose; Usubiaga, Arkaitz; Silva Simas, Moana; Ivanova, Olga; Weinzettel, Jan; Schmidt, Jannick H.; Merciai, Stefano; Tukker, Arnold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      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 ...
    • Global transport emissions in the Swedish carbon footprint 

      Hu, Jinxue; Wood, Richard; Tukker, Arnold; Boonman, Hettie; de Boer, Bertram (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Transport is perhaps one of the more difficult sources of emissions to address. Whilst opportunities are available for electrification of road vehicle fleets, air transport and the long distance freight of goods are more ...
    • Growth in Environmental Footprints and Environmental Impacts Embodied in Trade: Resource Efficiency Indicators from EXIOBASE3 

      Wood, Richard; Stadler, Konstantin; Silva Simas, Moana; Bulavskaya, Tatyana; Giljum, Stefan; Lutter, Stephan; Tukker, Arnold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Most countries show a relative decoupling of economic growth from domestic resource use, implying increased resource efficiency. However, international trade facilitates the exchange of products between regions with disparate ...
    • Headline Environmental Indicators Revisited with the Global Multi-Regional Input-Output Database EXIOBASE 

      Steinmann, Zoran J.N.; Schipper, Aafke M.; Stadler, Konstantin; Wood, Richard; Koning, A. J.; Tukker, Arnold; Huijbregts, Mark A. J, (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Environmentally extended multiregion input‐output (EEMRIO) databases are used to quantify numerous environmental pressures and impacts from a consumption perspective. However, for targeted communication with decision makers, ...
    • The legacy environmental footprints of manufactured capital 

      Wang, Ranran; Hertwich, Edgar G.; Fishman, Tomer; Deetman, Sebastiaan; Behrens, Paul; Chen, Wei-Qiang; de Koning, Arjan; Xu, Ming; Matus, Kira; Ward, Hauke; Tukker, Arnold; Zimmerman, Julie B. (Journal article, 2023)
      The foundations of today’s societies are provided by manufactured capital accumulation driven by investment decisions through time. Reconceiving how the manufactured assets are harnessed in the production–consumption system ...
    • Provincial and sector-level material footprints in China 

      Jiang, Meng; Behrens, Paul; Wang, Tao; Tang, Zhipeng; Yu, Yadong; Chen, Dingjiang; Liu, Lin; Ren, Zijian; Zhou, Wenji; Zhu, Shengjun; He, Canfei; Tukker, Arnold; Zhu, Bing (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      High-income countries often outsource material demands to poorer countries along with the associated environmental damage. This phenomenon can also occur within (large) countries, such as China, which was responsible for ...
    • Quantifying the potential for consumer-oriented policy to reduce European and foreign carbon emissions 

      Moran, Daniel; Wood, Richard; Hertwitch, Edgar; Matteson, Kim Reiner; Tukker, Arnold; Rodriguez, João F. D.; Schannes, Karin; Barrett, John (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The EU Carbon-CAP project assembled a comprehensive portfolio of consumer initiatives in order to assess the potential total impact of consumer options on national carbon footprints. Existing evaluations of behavioural ...
    • Recent Progress in Assessment of Resource Efficiency and Environmental Impacts Embodied in Trade: An Introduction to this Special Issue 

      Tukker, Arnold; Giljum, Stefan; Wood, Richard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      This paper serves as an introduction to this special issue on the use of multiregional input‐output modeling in assessments of natural resource use and resource use efficiency. Due to globalization, growth in trade has ...
    • Towards robust, authoritative assessments of environmental impacts embodied in trade: Current state and recommendations 

      Tukker, Arnold; de Koning, Arjan; Owen, Anne; Lutter, Stephan; Bruckner, Martin; Giljum, Stefan; Stadler, Konstantin; Wood, Richard; Hoekstra, Rutger (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Global multiregional input‐output databases (GMRIOs) became the standard tool for tracking environmental impacts through global supply chains. To date, several GMRIOs are available, but the numerical results differ. This ...