Effect of aggregation and disaggregation on embodied material use of products in input–output analysis

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Summary

The results indicate that the material footprints of countries calculated using the different spatial and product aggregations are in general in the order of a few percent, with outliers in the orders of 25% difference, and strongly suggests that thematerial data used to create the extensions for the IO framework should be collected at the highest resolution that is practically feasible.

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Published
2015-08-01
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Keywords

Embodied cognition, Product (mathematics), Outlier, Consumption (sociology), Footprint

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