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Time Use and Sustainability: An Input-Output Approach in Mixed Units

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Handbook of Input-Output Economics in Industrial Ecology

Part of the book series: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science ((ECOE,volume 23))

Industrial Ecology as coined by Frosch and Gallopoulos (1989)1 has proven to be one operational and holistic concept for successfully implementing more sustain able policies. However, like many other concepts that have become popular in the post-Brundtland era during the late 1980s and early 1990s, such as Cleaner Pro duction (Baas et al. 1990), Ecological Modernisation (Jänicke 1988) and Industrial Metabolism (Ayres 1989), it has been open to criticism, due to the failure of en vironmental policies to achieve many of their ambitious goals set out during the Rio process. The shared pathology has usually been the technocratic approach and supply-side bias, as most clearly laid out in the sustainable consumptiondebate (UNEP 2002; Princen et al. 2002).2

Researchers have responded to this criticism by adjusting their policy approaches. Much more emphasise has recently been given to the study of household behaviour and demand side issues (e.g. Gatersleben 2000; Jackson 2004); socio-institutional and demographic concerns have been integrated with environmental-economic ones (e.g. Cogoy 1995; Madlener and Stagl 2001); and more and more effort has been devoted to understanding and disclosing the com plex relationship between consumption activities and well-being (Hofstetter and Madjar 2003; Jackson et al. 2004).

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Minx, J.C., Baiocchi, G. (2009). Time Use and Sustainability: An Input-Output Approach in Mixed Units. In: Suh, S. (eds) Handbook of Input-Output Economics in Industrial Ecology. Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5737-3_37

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