Environmental Impact and Sustainability

Life cycle assessment and environmental impact analysis examine how products, industries, and economies consume resources and generate emissions across their entire chain of production and use — from raw material extraction through to disposal. Quantifying carbon and water footprints, embodied energy, and the flows embedded in global trade helps researchers and policymakers identify where environmental burdens actually originate, which often differs from where they are officially reported. A central challenge is understanding the socioeconomic and structural drivers that cause emissions to rise or fall — questions pursued through input-output and decomposition analysis — so that interventions can be designed to work with, rather than against, economic realities. Active work is focused on what carbon neutrality credibly requires at regional and sectoral scales, and how industrial restructuring can reduce energy intensity without undermining development.

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Life Cycle AssessmentEnvironmental ImpactCarbon FootprintWater FootprintEmbodied EnergyInput-Output Analysis