The impacts of data deviations between MRIO models on material footprints: A comparison of EXIOBASE, Eora, and ICIO.

ABSTRACT: In various international policy processes such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals, an urgent demand for robust consumption-based indicators of material flows, or material footprints (MFs), has emerged over the past years. Yet, MFs for national economies diverge when calculated with different Global Multiregional Input-Output (GMRIO) databases, constituting a significant barrier to a broad policy uptake of these indicators. The objective of this paper is to quantify the impact of data deviations between GMRIO databases on the resulting MF. We use two methods, structural decomposition analysis and structural production layer decomposition, and apply them for a pairwise assessment of three GMRIO databases, EXIOBASE, Eora, and the OECD Inter-Country Input-Output (ICIO) database, using an

SUBMITTER: Giljum S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6774327 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature