Environmental information for sustainable supply chains

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 44-67

  Perl, Elke ^a   Vorbach, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Environmental information; Industrial ecology; Sustainability; Sustainable supply chains

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; SURVEY; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 67650302206     PISSN: 14768917     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PIE.2009.026582     Document Type: Article

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