期刊
JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
卷 24, 期 5, 页码 1074-1087出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.13000
关键词
circular economy; domestic material consumption (DMC); economy-wide material flow analysis (EW-MFA); industrial ecology; regional MFA; social metabolism
资金
- ESPONEGTC(project CIRCTER)
The availability of harmonized and granular information is critical for the design of place-sensitive policies toward more sustainable economies. However, accessibility to disaggregated data at subnational levels remains an exception in many geographies and policy domains. In this article, we develop a novel three-stage-specification, optimization, extrapolation (SOE)-econometric approach to infer harmonized regional level estimates from broadly available socioeconomic data. The approach is tested by estimating domestic material consumption (DMC) in more than 280 European regions (at NUTS 2 level). Unlike previous methods based on similar econometric techniques, our method makes explicit the socio-metabolic profiles of subnational territories by estimating and applying country-specific elasticities. Our DMC estimates are consistent with those obtained by ad hoc material flow studies that could be accessed for a sample of regions. The SOE method presented in this paper provides decision-makers with a powerful tool to explore socio-metabolic profiles at subnational level and therefore to understand the potential effects of policies aimed at supporting circular economy transitions at such levels. The method can also be adapted with relative ease to support policy designs in other policy areas challenged by severe data scarcity.
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