Assessing the Inequality of Spanish Households through the Carbon Footprint The 21st Century Great Recession Effect

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作者
Antonio Lopez, Luis [1 ]
Arce, Guadalupe [1 ]
Morenate, Manuel [1 ]
Monsalve, Fabio [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Castilla La Mancha, Fac Econ & Business Studies, Masters Degree Programme Sustainable Growth & Dev, Albacete, Spain
[2] Univ Castilla La Mancha, Dept Econ Anal & Finance, Albacete, Spain
关键词
carbon footprint; consumption patterns; industrial ecology; inequality; input-output analysis (IOA); Spain; SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION; FOOD-CONSUMPTION; CULTURE; IMPACT; WASTE;
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10.1111/jiec.12466
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X [环境科学、安全科学];
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08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Inequality has recently become a major concern in economics. Leaving aside its social and economic effects is also possible to trace its environmental consequences, which this article attempts to assess. The indicator to be measured is the household's carbon footprint (CF) for different social groups. The deep economic crisis in the Spanish economy between 2008 and 2013 has increased consumption inequality and doubled the number of households below the poverty line. When focusing on domestic consumption, we found that the shopping basket of all income groups has very similar emissions intensities; therefore, the differences among the household CFs depend mainly on the scale effect (i.e., the size of consumption). However, when international trade is also considered, we found that the emission intensity of imports is bigger than the intensity of all the respective domestic goods. Therefore, the share of imported goods and services by social class will be an important determinant of the respective total CF. Before the crisis, households with higher incomes imported 30% of their total consumption items whereas households with lower income imported only 20% of their consumption. During the crisis, the imports of medium-high-income households fell to 20%, whereas low-and middle-income families maintained the same import share, which contributed to the reduction of the total household CF.
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