Sustainable power plants: A support tool for the analysis of alternatives

Land Use Policy

Volumn 36, Issue , 2014, Pages 478-484

  Scannapieco, D ^a   Naddeo, V ^a   Belgiorno, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Energy; Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA); Environmental sustainability; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Power plants; Renewable fuels

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOSSIL FUEL; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; POWER PLANT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84886463226     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.09.008     Document Type: Article

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