Life Cycle Assessment practices: Benchmarking selected European automobile manufacturers

International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 290-311

  Chanaron, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a GEM   (France)

Author keywords

Automobile; Best practices; LCA; Life Cycle Assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349350579     PISSN: 17435110     EISSN: 17435129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPLM.2007.016293     Document Type: Article

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