Improvement of regional sustainability: an ecological-economic framework integrating trade & air pollutants transfers
Résumé
A large number of sustainability accounting systems is currently developed: interdependences between sustainability dimensions and between regions are usually poorly addressed. A more realistic understanding of the consequences of a region's lifestyle is provided when including economic and environmental interrelations by linking multiples Input-Output tables and by assessing, in parallel, the transfers of long-range pollutant through environmental media. An ecological-economic framework is proposed and illustrated by a case study of Austria and Germany SO2 exchanges, either embodied in trade or transferred through the air.