Concepts Fostering Resource Efficiency A Trade-off Between Ambitions and Viability

Recent Progress in Assessment of Resource Efficiency and Environmental Impacts Embodied in Trade An Introduction to this Special Issue

Resource Footprints are Good Proxies of Environmental Damage

Environmental footprints are increasingly used to quantify and compare environmental impacts of for example products, technologies, households, or nations. This has resulted in a multitude of footprint indicators, ranging from relatively simple measures of resource use (water, energy, materials) to integrated measures of eventual damage (for...

Environmental impacts of products: Policy relevant information and data challenges

The research and analysis presented in this special issue shows that the same limited number of consumption categories are consistently revealed to be responsible for the largest share of environmental impact: mobility (automobile and air transport), food (meat, poultry, fish, and dairy followed by plant-based food), and residential energy use...