Systems thinking for life cycle sustainability assessment: A review of recent developments, applications, and future perspectives

NC Onat, M Kucukvar, A Halog, S Cloutier - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
Tracking the environmental impacts of production, use, and disposal of products (eg, goods,
and services) have been an important issue in the global economy. Although Life Cycle …

Theoretical exploration for the combination of the ecological, energy, carbon, and water footprints: Overview of a footprint family

K Fang, R Heijungs, GR de Snoo - Ecological Indicators, 2014 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, a continuously expanding list of footprint-style indicators has
been introduced to the scientific community with the aim of raising public awareness of how …

The material footprint of nations

TO Wiedmann, H Schandl, M Lenzen… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Metrics on resource productivity currently used by governments suggest that some
developed countries have increased the use of natural resources at a slower rate than …

Global land-water nexus: Agricultural land and freshwater use embodied in worldwide supply chains

B Chen, MY Han, K Peng, SL Zhou, L Shao… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
As agricultural land and freshwater inextricably interrelate and interact with each other, the
conventional water and land policy in “silos” should give way to nexus thinking when …

Physical and virtual water transfers for regional water stress alleviation in China

X Zhao, J Liu, Q Liu, MR Tillotson… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Water can be redistributed through, in physical terms, water transfer projects and virtually,
embodied water for the production of traded products. Here, we explore whether such water …

Trading forests: land-use change and carbon emissions embodied in production and exports of forest-risk commodities

S Henders, UM Persson, T Kastner - Environmental Research …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Production of commercial agricultural commodities for domestic and foreign markets is
increasingly driving land clearing in tropical regions, creating links and feedback effects …

Substantial nitrogen pollution embedded in international trade

A Oita, A Malik, K Kanemoto, A Geschke… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Anthropogenic emissions of reactive nitrogen to the atmosphere and water bodies can
damage human health and ecosystems,. As a measure of a nation's contribution to this …

Global carbon inequality

K Hubacek, G Baiocchi, K Feng… - Energy, Ecology and …, 2017 - Springer
Global climate change and inequality are inescapably linked both in terms of who
contributes climate change and who suffers the consequences. This fact is also partly …

Developing countries' responsibilities for CO2 emissions in value chains are larger and growing faster than those of developed countries

B Meng, Y Liu, Y Gao, M Li, Z Wang, J Xue, R Andrew… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Carbon emissions associated with international trade are significant. The emergence of
complex global value chains (GVCs) in recent decades, in which a country can operate as …

The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in East Asia: A tele-connected value chain analysis using inter-regional input-output analysis

DJ White, K Hubacek, K Feng, L Sun, B Meng - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Population and economic growth pose unique challenges in securing sufficient water,
energy, and food to meet demand at the sub-national (regional), national, and supra …