
Counting environmental impacts using attributional and consequential approaches
Environmental impacts are most of the time calculated following the attributional approach, which basically means \"attributing a share of the cake\" of the environmental impacts to an actor or a functional unit. The Consequential approach is less known, but sometimes far more instructive regarding the short-term and long-term impact dynamics. This article presents both approaches and explains the benefits and biases of both.
Counting environmental impacts using attributional and consequential approaches Cover image is based on pictures from Romain Guy and from ChrisA1995
Reviewers : Jacques Combaz and Hubblo’s team
Acknowledgments : Adeline Agut, Bruno Thomas
Introduction Environmental impacts are physical phenomena taking place within the biosphere. They can be localized to particular areas (land use, air pollution, etc.) or global (contribution to global warming, depletion of abiotic resources, etc.