In an increasingly globalized world with more and more distributed international supply
chains, sustainability studies and policies need to consider socioeconomic and …

Effective implementation of resource policies requires consistent and robust indicators. An
increasing number of national and international strategies focussing on resource efficiency …

Measuring progress towards sustainable development requires appropriate frameworks and
databases. The System of Environmental-Economic Accounts (SEEA) is undergoing …

Abstract 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 …

In this paper, we take an overview of several of the biggest independently constructed global
multi-regional input–output (MRIO) databases and ask how reliable and consonant these …

Material flow‐based indicators play an important role in measuring green and resource‐
efficient growth. This article examines the global flows of materials and the amounts of …

A rapidly growing share of global agricultural areas is devoted to the production of biomass
for non-food purposes. The expanding non-food bioeconomy can have far-reaching social …

Sustainable development and climate change mitigation have become guiding policy
principles in many welfare states. However, the traditional role of a welfare state is to …

The ecological footprint (EF) is an indicator of human requirements on bio-productive land,
an essential but limited resource, which use is related to environmental burden. In this …

Consumption-based material footprints calculated with multi-regional input–output (mrIO)
analysis are influenced by the sectoral, spatial and material aggregations used in the mrIO …