The Life Cycle of Chlorine, Part III: Accounting for Final Use

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 93-115

  Ayres, Robert U ^a  

^a INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

CFCs; Chemical manufacturing; Chlorine; Industrial metabolism; Materials accounting; Substance flow analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007788151     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jiec.1998.2.1.93     Document Type: Article

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