Simulating the impact of new industries on the economy: : The case of biorefining in Australia

• Autores: Arunima Malik, Manfred Lenzen, Rômulo Neves Ely, Erik Dietzenbacher
• Localización: Ecological Economics, ISSN-e 1873-6106, Nº. 107, 2014, págs. 84-93
• Idioma: inglés
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  • We investigate the economic and employment consequences of introducing a new sugarcane-based biofuel industry into Australia. We model the new biofuel industry on the production recipe of the existing large-scale gasoalcohol and alcohol sectors in the Brazilian economy. To this end we utilise a hybrid IO-LCA (input�output life cycle assessment) approach, which involves inserting data on new processes and/or sectors into an existing IO table. In particular, we develop and test an analytical and a numerical approach for re-balancing an IO table augmented with rows and columns representing large new biofuel industries. We quantify changes in economic output and employment in the Australian economy. We conclude that a future biofuel industry will be employment-positive for Australia.