The Co-evolution of Commodity Flows Economic Geography and Emissions

This book presents extensions to current commodity-flow models to analyze the economic and environmental impacts of recent structural changes such as fragmentation of production and lengthening supply chains. The extensions enable augmented commodity-flow models to analyze the vulnerability of supply chains and regions to climate change and extreme weather events. The models allow the explicit treatment of trade in intermediate goods; the so-called “new economic geography” behavioral foundations for production and inter-industry and interregional trade; endogenous determination of capital investment and employment; and changes in emissions associated with production consumption and freight movement. Presenting a modeling framework and simulations that are based on a thirty-year spatial time-series of inter-industry and interstate trade in the US this unique book is a valuable resource for regional scientists economic geographers and transportation modelers as well as environmental and atmospheric scientists.