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Towards a Fair Allocation of Raw Material Use for Indicators of Resource Efficiency

Guyonnet, Dominique
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Pasquier, Jean-Louis
Ludwig, Christian  
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Valdivia, Sonia
March 3, 2019
Progress towards the resource revolution

This paper examines the metrics used to assess the degree of efficiency of raw material utilization. Indicators of resource productivity used by various policy bodies typically divide gross domestic product (GDP) for, e.g., a country or a region, by an estimate of the amount of raw materials consumed by that country or region. But this estimate may be based on a variety of metrics defined using different system boundaries. This paper compares estimates of resource productivity calculated using three different metrics for raw material consumption: domestic material consumption (DMC), raw material consumption (RMC, i.e., “material footprint”) and raw material input (RMI). The comparison is made using datasets published by UNEP and based on the EORA environmentally-extended multiple-region input-output model.

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book part or chapter
Author(s)
Guyonnet, Dominique
Pasquier, Jean-Louis
Editors
Ludwig, Christian  
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Valdivia, Sonia
Date Issued

2019-03-03

Publisher

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum

Published in
Progress towards the resource revolution
ISBN of the book

978-3-9521409-8-7

Total of pages

63-67

Book part title

Methods, Indicators, and Design for Resource Efficiency and Sufficiency

Start page

236

Subjects

Resource Productivity

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Economy-wide Material Flow Accounting

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Raw Material Equivalents

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Material Footprint

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Environmental Burdens

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EUROSTAT

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UNEP

URL
https://www.wrforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/WRF_2019_book_FINAL.pdf
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/265537
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February 12, 2024
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