An environmental economic model for policy analysis in Canada and the United States: Binational economic input-output life-cycle assessment (EIO-LCA).
Published: 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780494274446
Description: A new generation of global environmental problems has highlighted the importance of holistic policy-development. Despite a rhetorical bias toward a global economy there has to-date been a lack of effective and transparent tools for assessment of cross-border environmental impacts. This work addresses this need by developing new environmental economic models for Canada and the US, based on a modeling approach is known as Economic Input-Output Life-Cycle Assessment (EIO-LCA), and an innovative binational EIO-LCA model to obtain novel insights into urban planning and the effect of international trade. In applying the model, we show that low density development is more energy and greenhouse gas intensive (by a factor of 2.0 to 2.5) than high density urban core development on a per capita basis. We also show that US industries are approximately 1.15 times as energy intensive and 1.3 times as GHG intensive as their Canadian counterparts, largely due to a heavy reliance on fossil fuels in the US.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 3266.

Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2007.

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