Life-cycle assessment: Constraints on moving from inventory to impact assessment

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-49

  Owens, J W ^a  

^a PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

LCA, LCIA; Life cycle assessment; Life cycle impact assessment; Life cycle inventory; Product life cycle assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001877293     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jiec.1997.1.1.37     Document Type: Review

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