Application challenges for the social Life Cycle Assessment of fertilizers within life cycle sustainability assessment

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 34-48

  Martínez Blanco, Julia ^a,b   Lehmann, Annekatrin ^a   Muñoz, Pere ^c   Antón, Assumpció ^c,d   Traverso, Marzia ^a   Rieradevall, Joan ^b,e   Finkbeiner, Matthias ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^c IRTA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Compost; Fertilizer; S LCA; SHDB; Sustainability; UNEP SETAC guidelines; Working time

Indexed keywords

COMPOSTING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FERTILIZERS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

FERTILIZER PRODUCTION; INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY; LIFE CYCLE SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENTS; S-LCA; SHDB; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT; UNEP/SETAC GUIDELINES; WORKING TIME;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84897135074     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.01.044     Document Type: Article

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