Challenges and opportunities for web-shared publication of quality-assured life cycle data: the contributions of the Life Cycle Data Network

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 895-902

  Recchioni, Marco ^a   Blengini, Gian Andrea ^a,b   Fazio, Simone ^a   Mathieux, Fabrice ^a   Pennington, David ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data quality; ELCD; Entry level requirements; LCA; Life cycle data

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DOCUMENTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EUROPEAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE DATABASE; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 84931567197     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-015-0907-6     Document Type: Article

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