This paper presents the strategy for a large EU-funded Integrated Project: EXIOPOL ("A New Environmental Accounting Framework Using Externality Data and Input-Output Tools for Policy Analysis"), with special attention for its part in environmentally extended (EE) input-output (IO) analysis. The...

EXIOPOL (A New Environmental Accounting Framework Using Externality Data and Input-Output Tools for Policy Analysis) was a European Union (EU)-funded project creating a detailed, global, multiregional environmentally extended Supply and Use table (MR EE SUT) of 43 countries, 129 sectors, 80...

This article considers the specification and aggregation errors that arise from estimating embodied <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$\text{ CO }_{2}$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> emissions and embodied water use with environmentally extended national input–output (IO) models, instead of with an environmentally extended international IO model. Model...</equationsource></inlineequation>

In the context of the transformation toward a "green economy," issues related to natural resource use have rapidly increased in importance in European and international policy debates. The large number of studies applying economy-wide material flow analysis so far mostly produced aggregated...