Assessing the sustainability of industrial value chains in Europe: a mapping method proposal
Jabier Retegi et al.
What the paper says
Establishing sustainability policies and business strategies involvesmapping environmental, economic, and social factors in an inte-grative way. In the academic literature, environmentally extendedinput-output tables have been employed to analyse the relation-ship between economic flows and their impacts on sustainability.These methodologies require advanced mathematical expertiseand do not easily provide a graphical representation to facilitatetheir interpretation. To fill this gap, this paper develops a uniqueapproach using Power Query that integrates economic, environ-mental, and employment data to create value chain maps. It alsoprovides examples of the insights gained by applying the methodto 12 European countries. The resulting 240 industrial value chainmaps represent 94.41% of the industrial emissions in the surveyedcountries. This novel and comprehensive methodology for map-ping and characterising industrial sustainability in European indus-trial value chains (including Scope 3 emissions) provides valuableknowledge for researchers, business representatives, and policy-makers to design effective sustainable strategies
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Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.32 × 0.4 = 0.13 |
| M · momentum | 0.57 × 0.15 = 0.09 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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