Industrial ecology and life cycle assessment: What's the use?

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 11, Issue SPEC. ISS. 1, 2006, Pages 14-16

  Lifset, Reid J ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Industrial ecology; Life cycle assessment (LCA)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOW MEASUREMENT; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 33646247629     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1065/lca2006.04.006     Document Type: Short Survey

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