Environmental sustainability assessment: An evaluation of established methods and analysis of their suitable applications in industrial practice

Proceedings of APMS 2010 - International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sproedt, Alexander ^a   Plehn, Johannes ^a   Vodicka, Matthias ^a   Deitmer, Henning ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Environmental assessment; Environmental assessment methods; Environmental sustainability; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894152360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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