Local Consumption and Global Environmental Impacts: Accounting, Trade-offs and Sustainability (Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption)
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1138826065 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Klaus Hubacek is a Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, USA, and an expert in the modelling and analysis of socio-ecological systems. He is an expert in spatial economic modelling and environmental issues. Kuishuang Feng is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, USA.
The authors provide an overview of key methods, including Multi-Regional Input-Output analysis and Life Cycle Assessment. Subsequent chapters connect local consumption to the global consequences of different environmental issues, such as water and land use and stress, greenhouse gases emissions, and other air pollution. To account for these impacts of consumption and distribution of wealth a global supply and value chain analysis is needed. This book describes how local consumption, particularly in urban areas, is increasingly met by global supply chains, often involving large geographical distances and leading to more global environmental impacts, such as pollution, climate change, water scarcity, and deforestation and other land conversions, all impacting on important ecosystem services. It is shown how inequalities in consumption become translated into environmental terms: thus people in rich countries maintain higher incomes and more resource-intensive lif
He published extensively on consumption based CO2 emissions, water use and land use at local, national and global scales. He has extensive experience in developing regional, national and global economic models with extension of environmental parameters. . He is an expert in spatial economic modelling and environmental issues. He has extensive experience in coupled natural-human systems research, leading large research programs funded by the government and research agencies in Austria, the UK, Germany, Japan, the USA and China, and internationally for the UNESCO, IUCN, World Bank, and EUROSTAT. About the AuthorKuishuang Feng is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, USA. Klaus Hubacek is a Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, USA, and an expert in the modelling and analysis of socio-ecologica