Characterization factors for global warming in life cycle assessment based on damages to humans and ecosystems

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1689-1695

  De Schryver, An M ^a,b   Brakkee, Karin W ^b   Goedkoop, Mark J ^a   Huijbregts, Mark A J ^b  

^a PRé Consultants B V   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CULTURAL THEORIES; DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; ECOSYSTEM HEALTHS; EMISSION CHANGES; GHG EMISSIONS; GREEN HOUSE GAS EMISSIONS; HUMAN HEALTHS; LIFE CYCLE IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; MODELING PROCEDURES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES; OZONE DEPLETIONS; PER UNITS; SPACE AND TIME; SPECIFIC TIME;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; DAMAGE DETECTION; ECOSYSTEMS; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MAMMALS; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

LIFE CYCLE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ACIDIFICATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DROWNING; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; MAMMAL; PLANT; POLLUTION MONITORING;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

AVES; MAMMALIA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 64549147865     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es800456m     Document Type: Article

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