Risk assessment and life-cycle assessment: Fundamentally different yet reconcilable

Greener Management International

Volumn , Issue 41, 2003, Pages 77-87

  Sleeswijk, Anneke Wegener ^a   Heijungs, Reinout ^a   Erler, Steffen Thomas ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contribution to risks; Environmental decision making; Environmental management; EUSES; Functional unit; Life cycle assessment; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

HAZARD MANAGEMENT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0842279653     PISSN: 09669671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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