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dc.contributor.authorTEIXIDO-FIGUERAS, Jordi
dc.contributor.authorSTEINBERGER, Julia K.
dc.contributor.authorKRAUSMANN, Fridolin
dc.contributor.authorHABERL, Helmut
dc.contributor.authorWIEDMANN, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorPETERS, Glen P.
dc.contributor.authorDURO, Juan A.
dc.contributor.authorKASTNER, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-01T14:53:46Z
dc.date.available2019-03-01T14:53:46Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationEcological indicators, 2016, Vol. 62, pp. 163-173
dc.identifier.issn1470-160X
dc.identifier.issn1872-7034en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/61506
dc.description.abstractNatural resource scarcity is no longer merely a remote possibility and governments increasingly seek information about the global distribution of resource use and related environmental pressures. This paper presents an international distributional analysis of natural resource use indicators. These encompass both territorial (national production) and footprint (national consumption) indicators for land-related pressures (human appropriation of net primary production, HANPP, and embodied HANPP), for material use (domestic material extraction and consumption and material footprint), and for carbon emissions (territorial carbon emissions and carbon footprints). Our main question is "What, both from a territorial and a footprint perspective, are the main driving factors of international environmental inequality?". We show that, for the environmental indicators we studied, inequality tends to be higher for footprint indicators than for territorial ones. The exception is land use intensity (as measured by HANPP), for which geographical drivers mainly determine the distribution pattern. The international distribution of material consumption is mainly a result of economic drivers whereas, for domestic extraction, demographic drivers can explain almost half of the distribution pattern. Finally, carbon emissions are the environmental pressure that shows the highest international inequality because of the larger contribution of economic drivers. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
dc.description.sponsorshipSpanish research project [ECO2013-45380-P]
dc.description.sponsorshipAustrian National Science Fund FWF [P20812-G11, P21012-G11]
dc.description.sponsorshipFP7 project VOLANTE [265104]
dc.description.sponsorshipEconomic and Social Research Council [ES/K006576/1]
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relationECO2013-45380-P
dc.relationP20812-G11
dc.relationP21012-G11
dc.relation265104
dc.relationES/K006576/1
dc.relation.ispartofEcological indicators
dc.subjectEnvironmental equity
dc.subjectResource use distribution
dc.subjectInternational trade
dc.subjectFootprint-territorial indicators
dc.subjectInequality decomposition
dc.subjectHANPP
dc.subjectEHANPP
dc.subjectDomestic extraction
dc.subjectDomestic material consumption
dc.subjectMaterial footprint
dc.subjectConsumption-based CO2 emissions
dc.subjectDrivers
dc.subjectSTIRPAT model
dc.subjectCarbon-Dioxide Emissionsen
dc.subjectNet Primary Productionen
dc.subjectEcological Footprint Inequalityen
dc.subjectHuman Appropriationen
dc.subjectIncome Inequalityen
dc.subjectWater Footprinten
dc.subjectMrio Databasesen
dc.subjectCo2 Emissionsen
dc.subjectTradeen
dc.subjectCountriesen
dc.titleInternational inequality of environmental pressures : decomposition and comparative analysis
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.11.041
dc.identifier.volume62
dc.identifier.startpage163
dc.identifier.endpage173
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