Environmental strategies for electrical and electronic equipment supply chains: Which to choose?

Sustainability

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 722-733

  Georgiadis, Patroklos ^a   Besiou, Maria ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Closed loop supply chains; Design for environment; Electrical and electronic equipment; Environmental legislation; Sustainability; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866449838     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su1030722     Document Type: Article

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