Local Consumption and Global Environmental Impacts: Accounting, Trade-offs and Sustainability

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Kuishuang Feng Klaus Hubacek

Local Consumption and Global Environmental Impacts

Accounting, Trade-offs and Sustainability

Kuishuang Feng, Klaus Hubacek, Yang Yu

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Routledge
27 August 2019

Globalization; Human geography; Sustainability

Series: Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption

This book describes how local consumption, particularly in urban areas, is increasingly met by global supply chains. These supply chains often extend over large geographical distances and have greater global environmental impacts, contributing to pollution, climate change, water scarcity, and deforestation.

As consumption is increasingly met by globalized supply chains, causing social, economic, and environmental impacts elsewhere, consumption decisions can unknowingly contribute and reinforce global inequality and exploitation. To account for the impacts of consumption and distribution of wealth we need to analyze global supply and value chains. In this volume, the authors provide an overview of key methods of analysis, including Multi-Regional Input-Output analysis and Life Cycle Assessment. Subsequent chapters connect local consumption to the global consequences of different environmental issues, such as water and land use and stress, greenhouse gases emissions, and other forms of air pollution. Each issue is addressed in an individual chapter, including case studies from China, U.S. and UK.

The book will be key reading for students taking courses in environmental sciences, sustainability sciences, ecological economies, and geography.

By: Kuishuang Feng, Klaus Hubacek, Yang Yu
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138826069
ISBN 10: 1138826065
Series: Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption
Pages: 118
Publication Date: 27 August 2019
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kuishuang Feng is Research Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, U.S. Klaus Hubacek is a Professor at the Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen (ESRIG), University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Yang Yu is Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Sciences and Teacher Education at Howard Community College, Maryland, U.S.