Green infrastructure life cycle assessment: A bio-infiltration case study

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 9-22

  Flynn, Kevin M ^a   Traver, Robert G ^b  

^a AKRF Inc   (United States)

^b Villanova University   (United States)

Author keywords

Best management practice (BMP); Carbon footprint; Global warming; Green city; Green infrastructure; Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI); Life cycle assessment (LCA); Philadelphia; Stormwater; Stormwater control measure (SCM); Villanova; Villanova University

Indexed keywords

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; GREEN CITIES; GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); PHILADELPHIA; STORMWATER CONTROL; STORMWATERS; VILLANOVA; VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY;

CARBON FOOTPRINT; DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; RESEARCH; SOILS; STORM SEWERS; STORMS; VEGETATION;

LIFE CYCLE;

ACIDIFICATION; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EUTROPHICATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENBELT; GROUND COVER; INFILTRATION; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MULCH; OZONE DEPLETION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SILICA; SMOG; SOIL AMENDMENT; STORMWATER; UNIVERSITY SECTOR; URBAN FORESTRY; WATER TREATMENT;

CARBON; DISEASES; EUTROPHICATION; EVALUATION; FORESTRY; LIFE CYCLE; PLANTS; RESEARCH; SOIL;

PENNSYLVANIA; PHILADELPHIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875067774     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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