Environmental Life Cycle Assessment: Background and Perspective

Life Cycle Assessment Handbook: A Guide for Environmentally Sustainable Products

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-14

  Huppes, Gjalt ^a   Curran, Mary Ann ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocation; Attributional; Consequential; Decision support; LCA; Life cycle assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880388109     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118528372.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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