Editorial: Eco-efficiency is important when it is strategic

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-18

  Hoffrén, Jukka ^a,c   Korhonen, Jouni ^b  

^a Statistics Finland   (Finland)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c National Statistical Office of Finland   (Finland)

Author keywords

Eco efficiency; EE; International sustainable development research society; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Strategic eco efficiency

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; MICROECONOMICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ETELA-SUOMEN; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; HELSINKI; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 34547650963     PISSN: 14768917     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PIE.2007.013877     Document Type: Review

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