Environmental Impacts of Products: A Detailed Review of Studies

By Arnold Tukker, B. Jansen. 2006

561 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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How researchers see this paper

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. T. Wiedmann
2. G. P. Peters
3. Edgar G. Hertwich
4. Richard Wood
5. Manfred Lenzen
6. Klaus Hubacek
7. J. Minx
8. Angela Druckman

In Environmental Engineering

1. G. P. Peters
2. Richard Wood
3. T. Wiedmann
4. Edgar G. Hertwich
5. Manfred Lenzen
6. Klaus Hubacek
7. D. Guan
8. J. Minx

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Edgar G. Hertwich
2. Richard Wood
3. T. Wiedmann
4. Klaus Hubacek
5. Manfred Lenzen
6. G. P. Peters
7. J. Minx
8. Angela Druckman

Citations in the corpus

• Good Intents, but Low Impacts: Diverging Importance of Motivational and Socioeconomic Determinants Explaining Pro-Environmental Behavior, Energy Use, and Carbon Footprint (2018, background): “The specific household-level energy consumption domains that appear to have an especially high emissions-related environmental impact are housing, transportation, and nutrition (EEA, 2013; Tukker & Jansen, 2006).”
• Situated lifestyles: I. How lifestyles change along with the level of urbanization and what the greenhouse gas implications are—a study of Finland (2013, methodology): “The IO method includes the whole economy, and using sectorial monetary transaction matrices describes the transactions between all the sectors to produce a certain outcome in one sector without truncation errors from system boundary selection (e.g. Suh et al 2004, Tukker and Jansen 2006).”
• Consumer and producer environmental responsibility: Comparing two approaches (2008, background): “…interpretation of Lenzen et al. (2007) is misleading because investment is a component of final expenditure (according to the definition of SNA 1993, reviewed in Section 2.1) that is performed by industries (unfortunately this error is common, cf. Tukker and Jansen, 2006, p. 161, first paragraph).”
• A Social Norms Intervention Going Wrong: Boomerang Effects from Descriptive Norms Information (2018, background): “To guarantee modern, affluent lifestyles, enormous amounts of energy and resources are needed [1,2].”
• More or Better? A Model for Changes in Household Greenhouse Gas Emissions due to Higher Income (2010, result): “The relative importance (share of GHG emissions) for the categories of living, food, mobility (car, public transport, air travel), and the rest (other goods and public consumption) is also comparable to the estimates of the EU and other countries reviewed by Tukker and Jansen (2006).”
• THE INS AND OUTS OF WATER USE – A REVIEW OF MULTI-REGION INPUT–OUTPUT ANALYSIS AND WATER FOOTPRINTS FOR REGIONAL SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS AND POLICY (2011, background): “The lower the order of effects covered in process analysis, the greater the potential for truncation errors (Tukker and Jansen, 2006).”
• The environmental effect of car-free housing: A case in Vienna (2008, background): “Many studies have shown that transportation by cars and airplanes, household energy, and food are by far the most important contributors to the overall household environmental impact, with energy, planes and cars having the highest emissions intensities (Hertwich, 2005c; Tukker and Jansen, 2006).”