Ecoinvent 3: assessing water use in LCA and facilitating water footprinting

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1349-1360

  Pfister, Stephan ^a,b   Vionnet, Samuel ^c   Levova, Tereza ^d   Humbert, Sebastien ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Aveny GmbH   (Switzerland)

^c Quantis   (Switzerland)

^d Ecoinvent   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Inventory; Water footprint; Water use

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LAND USE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW; WATER FOOTPRINTING; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84937836273     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-015-0937-0     Document Type: Article

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