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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kuishuang Feng, Kuishuang (University of Maryland Feng, Kuishuang Hubacek Feng, Feng Kuishuang, Klaus Hubacek, Hubacek Klaus, Yang Yu, Yu Yang
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2019
• EAN: 9781138826052
• ISBN: 978-1-138-82605-2
• No. of pages: 118
• Series: Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, Human Geography, Development and environmental geography