Environmental impact assessment of an automotive component using eco-indicator and CML methodologies

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 333-344

  Vinodh, S ^a   Jayakrishna, K ^a   Joy, Dino ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Automotive products; Environmental impact assessment; Life cycle assessment; Sustainable manufacturing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; INSTRUMENT PANELS; LIFE CYCLE; PLASTICS INDUSTRY; STYRENE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ACRYLONITRILE BUTADIENE STYRENE; AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING; AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS (EIA); LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE PERSPECTIVES; MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS; SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 84862131085     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-011-0405-x     Document Type: Article

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