1
Q
What are the two demand driven models?
A
LCA: consumption –> pollution, impacts
Input-Output: consumption –> jobs, pollution, impacts
2
Q
What is IO?
A
- Economy wide accounts of flows
- Linear model of the techno sphere
- Value chains add services as a contributor
3
Q
What does IO do?
A
Allows for the comparison of CO2, carbon footprints, production vs consumption or various regions from an economic perspective
4
Q
What are the physical and monetary units of IO?
A
- Purchaser, producer, and basic prices
- Short term price fluctuations
- Inflation
- Price heterogeneity
- Physical IO tables
5
Q
Explain the procedure of a hybrid LCA (HLCA)
A
LCA with smaller boundaries are expanded to include EEIO aggregated data
6
Q
What are common current developments in LCA + IO?
A
- Social LCA
- Work-related impacts in LCA
- Optimization (linear programming) under constraints
- Database hybridization
- Integration with Material Flow Analysis (MFA) to investigate the transition to a Circular Economy
