Environmental impacts of household consumption in Europe: Comparing process-based LCA and environmentally extended input-output analysis.

ABSTRACT: The environmental impacts generated by household consumption are generally calculated through footprints, allocating the supply-chain impacts to the final consumers. This study compares the result of the Consumer Footprint indicator, aimed at assessing the impacts of household consumption in Europe, calculated with the two standard approaches usually implemented for footprint calculations: (i) a bottom-up approach, based on process-Life cycle assessment of a set of products and services representing household consumption, and (ii) a top-down approach, based on environmentally extended input-output tables (EXIOBASE 3). Environmental impacts are calculated considering 14 environmental impact categories out of the 16 included in the EF2017 impact assessment method. Both footprints show simila

SUBMITTER: Castellani V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6886559 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature