Environmental Effects of Production and Consumption Activities Within an Economy: the Aragon Case |
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Authors: | Monica Flores-Garcia Alfredo J Mainar |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Economy and Management, University of Zaragoza, Maria de Luna 3, Building Betancourt, 50005 Zaragoza, Spain |
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Abstract: | The goal of this research paper is to analyze the households’ environmental impact in a regional economy such as Aragon, focusing
on water consumption, and water and atmosphere pollution. Our objective is to include not only the direct impact but also
the indirect one that is generated by the production of goods and services in global and per capita. The framework of analysis
is a SAMEA (Social Accounting Matrix and Environmental Accounts) built for Aragon in 1999. This SAMEA is composed by SAM (Social
Accounting Matrix) and also the Water Accounts, the Water Pollution Accounts and the Atmosphere Emissions Accounts. For this
reason, the SAMEA describes the relationship between the institutional activities and the environment. In order to obtain
environmental impact of household activity in Aragon and to measure the individual responsibility, we are going to calculate
indicators from the SAMEA model considering only households as exogenous account. The environmental effects are estimated
for two water resources categories, for six water pollution categories and for six atmosphere emissions categories. |
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