Influence of Inventory Data Sets on Life-Cycle Assessment Results: A Case Study on PVC

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 109-130

  Pecreboom, Eric Copius ^a   Kleijn, Rene ^b   Lemkowitz, Saul ^a   Lundie, Sven ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data quality; Databases; Life cycle assessment (LCA); Polyvinyl chloride (PVC); Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001724117     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jiec.1998.2.3.109     Document Type: Article

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