The status of life-cycle assessment as an environmental management tool

Environmental Progress

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 277-283

  Curran, Mary Ann ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT TOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; INTEGRATED PRODUCT POLICY (IPP); LIFE-CYCLE ASSAESSMENT (LCA);

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOSSIL FUELS; GLOBAL WARMING; HEALTH; LAND USE; OZONE; PUBLIC POLICY; TOXICITY;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 12344331460     PISSN: 02784491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ep.10046     Document Type: Article

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