The application of environmental requirements in Swedish road maintenance contracts

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 163-171

  Faith Ell, Charlotta ^a   Balfors, Berit ^a,b   Folkeson, Lennart ^a,c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Environmental Management and Assessment Research Group (EMA)

^c Division Transport and Environment

Author keywords

Environmental requirements; Green procurement; Road maintenance

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS; GREEN PROCUREMENT; ROAD MAINTENANCE;

CONTRACTS; DATA TRANSFER; MAINTENANCE; ROADS AND STREETS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 28244434085     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2004.11.004     Document Type: Article

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