Multi-objective synthesis of a company's supply network by accounting for several environmental footprints

Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 456-466

  Vujanović, Annamaria ^a   Čuček, Lidija ^b   Pahor, Bojan ^a   Kravanja, Zdravko ^b  

^a Perutnina Ptuj Dd ^*  (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Company's supply network; Environmental impacts; Footprints; Multi objective synthesis; Renewables; Total footprints

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938273825     PISSN: 09575820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psep.2014.03.004     Document Type: Article

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