Environmental Footprints of Agriculture Embodied in International Trade: Sensitivity of Harvested Area Footprint of Chinese Exports

Jan Weinzettel () and Richard Wood

Ecological Economics, 2018, vol. 145, issue C, 323-330

Abstract: Consumption-based accounting seeks to link a population's lifestyles to their environmental impact. Input-output analysis (IOA) serves well in this approach as it covers all traded products, their full supply chains and explicitly delineates final consumption. However, using IOA comes at the expense of precision due to aggregation error. There has been a recent discussion on the plausibility of IOA results of agricultural pressures. We look at the harvested area footprint of Chinese exports, open the black box of the results of IOA and provide a detailed composition of the footprint. This helps to understand whether its size is a result of the poor precision of IOA methods, or whether it is based on plausible production patterns of the exported products.

Keywords: Environmental footprint; Land footprint; Land use; International trade; Multi-regional input-output analysis; MRIO (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.11.013

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