Publication detail

Environmental-social-economic footprints of consumption and trade in the Asia-Pacific region

Yang, L., Wang, Y., Wang, R.R., Klemeš, J.J., Almeida, C., Jin, M., Zheng, X., Qiao, Y.

Original Title

Environmental-social-economic footprints of consumption and trade in the Asia-Pacific region

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Asia-Pacific (APAC) has been the world’s most dynamic emerging area of economic development and trade in recent decades. Here, we reveal the significant and imbalanced environmental and socio-economic effects of the region’s growths during 1995–2015. Owing to the intra-regional trade of goods and services, APAC economies grew increasingly interdependent in each other’s water and energy use, greenhouse gas (GHG) and PM2.5 emissions, and labor and economic productivity, while the environmental and economic disparity widened within the region. Furthermore, our results highlight APAC’s significant role in globalization. By 2015, APAC was engaged in 50–71% of the virtual flows of water, energy, GHG, PM2.5, labor, and value added embodied in international trade. While the region’s final demand and trade grew less resource- and emissions-intensive, predominantly led by China’s transformations, APAC still lags behind global averages after two decades. More joint efforts of APAC economies and attention to sustainable transformation are needed.

Keywords

carbon footprint; economic development; emission control; environmental economics; globalization; labor productivity; socioeconomic conditions; trade-environment relations; air pollution control; Article; climate change; controlled study; developing country; energy consumption; fluid intake; high income country; hydropower; natural resource; pollution; socioeconomics; sustainable development; China; Pacific Ocean; Pacific Rim

Authors

Yang, L., Wang, Y., Wang, R.R., Klemeš, J.J., Almeida, C., Jin, M., Zheng, X., Qiao, Y.

Released

1. 12. 2020

Publisher

Nature Research

ISBN

2041-1723

Periodical

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

Year of study

1

Number

11

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

4490

Pages to

4490

Pages count

10

URL

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18338-3

BibTex

@article{BUT167783,
  author="Jiří {Klemeš}",
  title="Environmental-social-economic footprints of consumption and trade in the Asia-Pacific region",
  journal="NATURE COMMUNICATIONS",
  year="2020",
  volume="1",
  number="11",
  pages="4490--4490",
  doi="10.1038/s41467-020-18338-3",
  issn="2041-1723",
  url="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18338-3"
}