Pothen, Frank; Schymura, Michael - In: Ecological Economics 109 (2015) C, pp. 109-121
The amount of materials used worldwide in production and consumption increased by 56% from 1995 to 2008. Using an index decomposition analysis based on the logarithmic mean Divisia index, we investigate the drivers of material use, both on a global and a country scale. We exploit a panel dataset...