Visualisation of LCA environmental impacts of electrical and electronic products using multidimensional scaling

International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management

Volumn 4, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 166-185

  Gutiérrez, Ester ^a   Adenso Díaz, Belarmino ^b   Lozano, Sebastián ^a   Barba Gutiérrez, Yolanda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Electrical and electronic equipment; Environmental impacts; LCA; Life cycle assessment; MDS; Multidimensional scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957030082     PISSN: 17435110     EISSN: 17435129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPLM.2009.031672     Document Type: Article

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