Over the years many people and institutions have contributed to the creation of the Eora MRIO tables.
The Eora project was originally funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) under its Discovery Project DP0985522. The core Eora team comprises Manfred Lenzen, Keiichiro Kanemoto, Daniel Dean Moran, and Arne Geschke. Manfred Lenzen is the project’s Chief Investigator, and developer of the bulk of the original source code, as well as diagnostics and analytical routines. Keiichiro Kanemoto’s work comprises the entire raw data processing stage, including the automation and streamlining of the constraint formulation task. Daniel Moran’s two main contributions were in the redesign of algorithms to better utilize high performance hardware, and the implementation of the Eora website which features results, data visualizations, and query and analysis tools. Arne Geschke is responsible for parallel optimisation algorithms that were used in reconciling Eora’s MRIO tables with raw data. Throughout the project, a number of researchers made contributions to various technical aspects of Eora. The basic ideas for Eora’s assembly and optimisation procedures were conceived by Manfred Lenzen and Blanca Gallego (Gallego and Lenzen 2009) and further developed by Ting Yu (Yu, Lenzen et al. 2009). Julien Ugon and Ting Yu worked on the development of a Quadratic Programming optimisation algorithm. The supercomputer facility at the Australian National University through the NCI National Facility granted supercomputer runtime for carrying out some of the optimisation calculations. The authors thank Margaret Kahn from NCI, as well as Yalcın Kaya and Regina Burachik from the University of South Australia, and Yasushi Kondo from Waseda University for valuable advice. Sebastian Juraszek from the School of Physics at the University of Sydney expertly grew our high performance computing cluster as Eora got bigger and bigger. Richard Wood and Jessica Dielmann contributed to the data management process at earlier stages of the project. Richard Wood contributed a time series of Australian Supply-Use Tables (Wood 2011), Tommy Wiedmann contributed detailed input-output data for the United Kingdom, and Mark Müller made available input-output tables for Central Asian countries (Müller 2006; Müller and Djanibekov 2009). Mathis Wackernagel at Global Footprint Network kindly shared the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts (Global Footprint Network 2010) allowing us to calculate ecological footprints embodied in international trade. Helmut Haberl provided data on human appropriation of net primary productivity (HANPP), another important indicator of the ecological impact of consumption. Pablo Muñoz and Chia-Hao Liu processed data for South America and Taiwan, respectively. Robbie Andrew and Tommy Wiedmann gave valuable feedback on construction tools and user interface. Patrick Jomini extracted the structure for the Hong Kong economy from the Salter database. Leonardo Souza from the United Nations Statistical Division provided valuable advice on the interpretation of UN National Accounts databases. Charlotte Jarabak from the University of Sydney’s Science and Technology Library supplied many CD-ROM-based data compendia. Finally, the statistical agencies of numerous countries as well as international statistical organisations, such as the United Nations Statistical Divisions and Eurostat, assisted this project by supplying data.