Marble quarrying: An energy and waste intensive activity in the production of building materials

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 108, Issue , 2008, Pages 197-207

  Liguori, V ^a   Rizzo, G ^a   Traverso, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eco indictors; Embodied energy; Energy and environmental audits; Life cycle assessment; Marble

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; ENERGY USE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MARBLE; QUARRYING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 58849090976     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/EEIA080201     Document Type: Article

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