A proposal for accounting for biodiversity in life cycle assessment

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3245-3254

  Penman, Trent D ^a   Law, Brad S ^a   Ximenes, Fabiano ^a  

^a NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity metric; Disturbance ecology; LCA

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84655177796     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-010-9889-7     Document Type: Article

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