Before revision: It is designed to detect and analyze patterns in the societal use of resources making a distinction between: (i) the internal end uses (who is using which resources, how much, how, and why); (ii) the resulting internal environmental pressures associated with the various end uses, allowing an analysis of the impacts they create on the environment; and (iii) the level of externalization through trade of both requirements of additional end uses and resulting environmental pressures that are moved to the social-ecological systems producing the imports.
After revision: It is designed to detect and analyze patterns in the societal use of resources making a distinction between: the internal end uses (who is using which resources, how much, how, and why); the resulting internal environmental pressures associated with the various end uses, allowing an analysis of the impacts they create on the environment; and the level of externalization through trade of both requirements of additional end uses and resulting environmental pressures that are moved to the social-ecological systems producing the imports.