Methodology for Life cycle Assessment

Environmental Assessment and Management in the Food Industry: Life Cycle Assessment and Related Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 59-82

  Tillman, Anne Marie ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Goal and scope definition; Inventory analysis; LCA application; LCA methodology; Life cycle assessment; Life cycle impact assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902571013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-84569-552-1.50004-7     Document Type: Chapter

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