Reply to the editorial "product environmental footprint - breakthrough or breakdown for policy implementation of life cycle assessment?" Written by Prof. Finkbeiner (Int J Life Cycle Assess 19(2):266-271)

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1356-1360

  Galatola, Michele ^a   Pant, Rana ^b  

^a EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EUROPEAN UNION; EUTROPHICATION; GREEN CHEMISTRY; LETTER; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 84902550710     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-014-0740-3     Document Type: Letter

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