Product category rules and environmental product declarations as tools to promote sustainable products: Experiences from a case study of furniture production

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-207

  Fet, Annik Magerholm ^a   Skaar, Christofer ^a   Michelsen, Ottar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Environmental product declarations; Furniture; Life cycle assessment; Life cycle database

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; PRODUCT DESIGN; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCT DECLARATIONS; FURNITURE; FURNITURE PRODUCTION; KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 67650044793     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-008-0163-6     Document Type: Article

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