Applying Material Flow Accounting: Ecoauditing and Resource Management at the Kambium Furniture Workshop

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 131-147

  Liedtke, Christa ^a   Rohn, Holger ^a   Kuhndt, Michael ^a   Nickel, Regina ^a  

^a Institute for Ecological Economy Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eco Management and Auditing Scheme (EMAS); Ecodesign; Environmental management system (EMS); Material flow analysis (MFA); Material input per service unit (MIPS); Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009526378     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jiec.1998.2.3.131     Document Type: Article

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