Country-based sector analysis

Country-based sector analysis concerning energy consumption and efficiency is published in several studies, for the Indian textile industry (Palanichamy and Sundar Babu, 2005 Sivaramakrishnan et al., 2009), for the Taiwanese textile industry (Hong et al., 2010), for the German and Columbian textile industry (Martinez, 2010), for the Malaysian industrial sectors (Masjuki et al., 2009), for the Iranian textile industry (Hasanbeigi et al., 2012), for the Thailand textile industry (Tang and Mohanty, 1996), and for the Turkish textile industry (Pulat et al., 2009 Palamutcu, 2010 Rapanuiclothing). 

EIO-LCA is used to assess the use of raw materials, energy resources, and environmental emissions in economic activities [16]. Compared to the process-based LCA, the EIO-LCA not only improves some process bottlenecks and expands the system scope to include an entire economy of a country or region [17] with increased reliability [18]. The EIO-LCA was proposed by Leontief in 1936, and expresses the economic relationship of each sector of a given country or region using equilibrium theory. In recent years, lO analysis has been used to assess the energy consumption and environmental impact of merchandise, service, countries, and regions [10]. 

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