Source for Figure 2.24: EXIOBASE 3
The data presented in Figure 2.24 is derived from EXIOBASE 3. This is a comprehensive dataset providing a time series of detailed, environmentally extended, multi-regional input-output tables, as documented by K. Stadler et al. in a 2018 publication in the Journal of Industrial Ecology.
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Source for Figure 2.24: EXIOBASE 3
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