Practitioners' use of life cycle costing with environmental costs - A Swedish study

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 897-902

  Hochschorner, Elisabeth ^a   Noring, Maria ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Environmental costs; LCC; Life cycle costing; Practitioner use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905722347     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-011-0325-3     Document Type: Article

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