Application of Lca in Waste Management

Solid Waste Technology & Management

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 137-160

  Björklund, Anna ^a   Finnveden, Göran ^a   Roth, Liselott ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Application of LCA in Waste Management; Biotic Carbon and Carbon Sinks; Generic System Description; Important Methodological Aspects; Integrated Waste Management 2; LCA Models of Waste Management; Procedures for allocation are described in the ISO LCA; Time Perspectives and Landfills; Upstream and Downstream System Boundaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960947407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470666883.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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