Industry and energy sectors in Flanders: Environmental performance and response indicators

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-51

  Block, Chantal ^a   Gerven, Tom ^b   Vandecasteele, Carlo ^b  

^a Leuven Engineering School Groep T   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Energy sector; Industry; Performance indicator; Relative and absolute indicators; Response indicator

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847238731     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-006-0063-6     Document Type: Article

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