Guidance for product category rule development: Process, outcome, and next steps

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 532-537

  Ingwersen, Wesley W ^a   Subramanian, Vairavan ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b North America Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Environmental product declarations; Product category rules; Product claims; Product footprints

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; DATA BASE; DOCUMENTATION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; OPERATOR; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCT CATEGORY RULES;

EID: 84898801211     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-013-0659-0     Document Type: Article

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