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

by Kuishuang Feng, Yang Yu, Klaus Hubacek

Book Overview

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 globalised supply chains, causing social, economic, and environmental impacts elsewhere, consumption...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138826065
• ISBN13: 9781138826069
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"