Evaluation of life cycle impacts: Identification of societal weights of environmental issues

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 221-228

  Sangle, Shirish ^a   Ram Babu, P ^a   Khanna, P ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Environmental issues; Fuzzy partial ordering; Life Cycle Assessment; Life Cycle Impact Assessment; Neural networks; Relative ranking; Societal weights; Weighting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EVALUATION; LIFE CYCLE; LOGIC; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIETY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 2442735444     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02979501     Document Type: Article

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