On multi-criteria sustainability assessment: Spider-gram surface and dependence biases

Applied Energy

Volumn 113, Issue , 2014, Pages 159-163

  Dias, Luis C ^a,b   Domingues, Ana Rita ^a  

^a INESC COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Life cycle approaches; Multi criteria; Spider gram cumulative surface area; Sustainability assessment

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RESOURCES; TECHNOLOGY;

ARBITRARY ORDER; BIOGAS PRODUCTION; LIFE-CYCLE APPROACHES; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION; SURFACE AREA; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BIOGAS; BIOMASS POWER; GAS PRODUCTION; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY;

KENYA;

ARANEAE;

EID: 84881248480     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.07.024     Document Type: Article

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