Concept information
Preferred term
measuring the environmental impact of consumption
Definition
- Consumption—including the provision of goods and services for consumption—has a wide variety of impacts on the environment: land is cultivated, energy resources exploited, and toxic substances emitted to water and air. To manage environmental impacts, it is necessary to conceptualize and often also to quantify them. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Measuring the Environmental Impact of Consumption]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/measuring_the_environmental_impact_of_consumption
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