The Environmental Footprint of the Final Demand in Italy: a Supply-Use Table Approach of Economic Assessment

It is well known that household consumption is one of the most important factors that affects the environmental stability and the economic decisional process of all the advanced economies. And, in the last decade, the environmental unsustainability of production activity to meet the household consumption need is recognised as one of the most affecting causes of general pollution. This paper is focused on the socioeconomic and environmental impact that the household consumption categories experience in Italy and is a first attempt to develop a unique social, economic and environmental model embracing all categories of consumption. Supply-Use Tables merged with the Social, Economic and Environmental Matrices, as published by ISTAT, and the Economic Input-Output model are used.