Development of a multiple criteria based decision support system for environmental assessment of recycling measures in the iron and steel making industry

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-52

  Spengler, T ^a   Geldermann, J ^a   Hahre S ^a   Sieverdingbeck, A ^a   Rentz, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Iron and steel making industry; Life cycle assessment; Multiple criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031652847     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0959-6526(97)00048-6     Document Type: Article

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