Life cycle assessment and ecosystem services

Ecosystem Services and Global Trade of Natural Resources: Ecology, Economics and Policies

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 151-171

  Koellner, Thomas ^a,b   Pfister, Stephan ^b   Koehler, Annette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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