Energy burdens of conventional wholesale and retail portions of product life cycles

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 59-69

  Norris, Gregory A ^a,b,c   Della Croce, Filippo ^a,d   Jolliet, Olivier ^d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Sylvatica   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computers; Distribution; E commerce; Energy; Input output life cycle assessment (IO LCA); Transportation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; RETAIL STORES; TRANSPORTATION;

LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA);

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 0036524735     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/108819802763471780     Document Type: Article

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