Linkage-based frameworks for sustainability assessment: Making a case for driving force-pressure-state-exposure-effect-action (DPSEEA) frameworks

Sustainability

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 441-463

  Waheed, Bushra ^a   Khan, Faisal ^a   Veitch, Brian ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

DPSEEA; Indices; Life cycle analysis; Linkage based framework; Multi criteria decision making; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650466050     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su1030441     Document Type: Article

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