Temporal discounting for life cycle assessment: Differences between environmental discounting and economic discounting

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zhai, Qiang ^a   Crowley, Bridgette ^a   Yuan, Chris ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOUNTING; ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES; LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES; TEMPORAL HOMOGENEITIES; TEMPORAL UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 79960734223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSST.2011.5936842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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