Local systems, global impacts : Using life cycle assessment to analyse the potential and constraints of industrial symbioses

VTT Publications

Volumn , Issue 768, 2011, Pages 1-158

  Sokak, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Case study; Finland; Industrial ecology; Industrial symbiosis Pulp and paper industry Life cycle assessment; Natural Step System Conditions

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; DIRECT EMISSIONS; EARTH'S CRUST; ENERGY INPUTS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; FINLAND; GLOBAL IMPACTS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL OPERATIONS; INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS; INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS-PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY-LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS; INPUT-OUTPUT; LIFE CYCLE IMPACTS; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; LOCAL SYSTEM; NATURAL ECOSYSTEM; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; NATURAL STEPS; NATURAL SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL FLOW; PULP AND PAPER; RESEARCH METHODS; RESOURCE USE; SUSTAINABILITY PRINCIPLES; USING LIFE; VIRGIN MATERIALS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); ENERGY CONVERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EUTROPHICATION; LIFE CYCLE; PAPER; PAPER AND PULP INDUSTRY; PULP; RATING; RESEARCH; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ACIDIFICATION; ECOLOGY; EMISSION; ENERGY; EUTROPHICATION; FINLAND; IMPURITIES; LIFE CYCLE; PULP INDUSTRY; RATING; RESEARCH; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80055071539     PISSN: 12350621     EISSN: 14550849     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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