EcoAudit: A renewed simplified procedure to facilitate the environmentally informed material choice orienting the further life cycle analysis for ecodesigners

Materials Transactions

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 832-837

  De Benedetti, Bruno ^a   Toso, Darío ^a   Baldo, Gian Luca ^b   Rollino, Sara ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Life Cycle Engineering   (Italy)

Author keywords

EcoAudit; Ecodesign; Impact indicators; Life cycle analysis; Material selection

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIDGE; CRITICAL PHASIS; DESIGN PROCESS; ECODESIGN; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL BURDENS; ENVIRONMENTAL LOADS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; IMPACT INDICATORS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MATERIAL CHOICE; MATERIAL SELECTION; MATERIALS AND PROCESS; PRODUCTS AND SERVICES; REAL TIME; SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE;

BENCHMARKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; LIFE CYCLE; MATERIALS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 77954024453     PISSN: 13459678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2320/matertrans.MH200918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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