Environmental impacts of electronic invoicing

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 93-113

  Moberg, Åsa ^a   Borggren, Clara ^a   Finnveden, Göran ^a   Tyskeng, Sara ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cumulative energy demand; E invoicing; Electronic invoicing; Energy use; Environment; Greenhouse gas emissions; ICT; Information and communication technology; Invoicing; LCA; Life cycle assessment; Sweden

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GREENHOUSE GAS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS;

SWEDEN;

EID: 77958108904     PISSN: 14768917     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PIE.2010.036044     Document Type: Article

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