An extended input–output table for environmental and resources accounting

Abstract

Environmentally Extended Input–Output (EEIO) tables have become a powerful element in supporting information-based environmental and economic policies. National- and provincial-level IO tables are currently published by the National Bureau of Statistics of the People’s Republic of China according to well-defined conventions. However, county-level IO tables are not provided as a rule by official statistics organizations. This paper conducts an overview of compiling EEIO tables for environmental and resources accounting at the county level and then answers several questions: First, what kind of data should be prepared for the compilation of county-level EEIO tables? Second, how can we set up comprehensive EEIO tables at the county level? Third, regarding the survey methods and the indirect modeling, which one should be chosen to build EEIO tables at the county level? Finally, what policy questions could such a table answer? EEIO tables at the county level can be used to predict the economic impacts of envir...