Life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions

Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 13-41

  Reijnders, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMERCE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FOSSIL FUELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL UNITS; INDIRECT EFFECTS; INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MULTI-OUTPUT PROCESS; RESOURCE EXTRACTION;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84919697114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7991-9_2     Document Type: Chapter

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