This study is part of the 'Environmental Footprint and Material Efficiency Support for Product Policy' project funded by the Directorate-General for Environment (DG Environment) from 2012 until 2016. Material efficiency criteria for products have become increasingly relevant for European Union...

The Consumer Footprint aims at assessing the potential environmental impacts due to consumption. The calculation of the Consumer Footprint of the European Union (EU) is based on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of representative products (or services) purchased and used in one year by an EU...

A fundamental problem in the field of R&D management is how public research laboratories consume resources to produce scientific research and operations. The study confronts this problem here by developing a model of metabolism of research labs, which endeavours to analyze the behavior of public...