Centralized versus decentralized decision-making for recycled material flows

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1172-1177

  Hong, I Hsuan ^a   Ammons, Jane C ^b   Realff, Matthew J ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RECYCLING;

DEMANUFACTURE; RECYCLED MATERIAL FLOWS;

DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RECYCLING;

CENTRALIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECENTRALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; LOGISTICS; MODEL; NUMERICAL METHOD; RECYCLING;

ARTICLE; CENTRALIZATION; DECENTRALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; PARAMETER; PLANNING; PROFIT; RECYCLING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL;

EID: 39649098470     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es062177k     Document Type: Article

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