Every product casts a shadow: But can we see it, and can we act on it?

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-74

  Heiskanen, Eva ^a  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Environmental life cycle assessment; Environmental policy; LCA; Product policy; Science; Social studies of science and technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001836713     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1462-9011(99)00005-2     Document Type: Article

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