Eco-labelling: Success or failure?

Environmentalist

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 125-133

  Erskine, Camilla C ^a,b   Collins, Lyndhurst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b The Beeches ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLABELLING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; PAPER PRODUCTS; REGIONAL PLANNING;

EUROPE;

EID: 0030669046     PISSN: 02511088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018552000651     Document Type: Article

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