The ability to harness energy from fossil fuels and to transform it to perform useful work has
undoubtedly been a prerequisite for the rise of modern civilisation. Energy-driven …

The only comprehensive study comparing structural decomposition analysis (SDA) and
index decomposition analysis (IDA) was conducted around 2000. There have since been …

Index decomposition methodology was a technique first used in the late 1970s to study the
impact of changes in product mix on industrial energy demand. A survey in 1995 listed a …

Conventional process‐analysis‐type techniques for compiling life‐cycle inventories suffer
from a truncation error, which is caused by the omission of resource requirements or …

Pollution emitted by US manufacturers declined markedly over the past several decades,
even as real manufacturing output increased. I first show that most of the decline in US …

The rapid urbanization in China has produced a large demand for energy in the past
decades. It is therefore urgent to have an understanding of the driving forces behind the …

Many environmental problems can be attributedto the extraction and emissions of
physicalsubstances. Increasing our understanding of theeconomic and technological driving …

Danish household consumption increased by 58% over the period 1966–1992 while CO2
emissions only increased by 7%. Using decomposition analysis we investigated the global …

Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions are known to alter hydrological cycles, disrupt
marine ecosystems and species lifecycles, and cause global habitat loss. In this study, we …

We analyse the wood and concrete designs of the Wälludden building described by
Börjesson et al.(Energy Policy 28 (2000) 575) in terms of their embodied energy, employing …