Environmental evaluation of waste management scenarios - Significance of the boundaries

Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 76-85

  Ghinea, Cristina ^a   Petraru, Madalina ^a   Bressers, Hans Th A ^b   Gavrilescu, Maria ^a  

^a GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environment; GaBi; Life cycle assessment; Solid waste; Waste management technologies

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION; GABI; HUMAN TOXICITY; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; LANDFILLING; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MANAGEMENT PROCESS; MANAGEMENT SCENARIOS; MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES; NATIONAL STRATEGIES; PHOTOCHEMICAL OZONE; ROMANIA; SYSTEM BOUNDARY; TEMPORARY STORAGE; WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAVY METALS; LIFE CYCLE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; OZONE; SOLID WASTES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84862889115     PISSN: 16486897     EISSN: 18224199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/16486897.2011.644665     Document Type: Article

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