An integrated sustainability performance assessment and benchmarking of breweries

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 173-193

  Tokos, Hella ^a   Pintarič, Zorka Novak ^b   Krajnc, Damjan ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Breweries; Composite sustainability index; Process integration; Sensitivity analysis; Sustainability assessment

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; BEER; BENCHMARKING; BREWERIES; BREWING; FERMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PROCESS INTEGRATION; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY INDEX; SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE; SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84862129463     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-011-0390-0     Document Type: Article

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