Toward a more accurate regionalized life cycle inventory

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 112, Issue , 2016, Pages 308-315

  Yang, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Interregional commodity flows; Life cycle inventory; Multiregional input output models; Regional LCA; Regional LCIA; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING;

INPUT OUTPUT MODEL; INTERREGIONAL COMMODITY FLOWS; LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY; REGIONAL LCA; REGIONAL LCIA; SPATIAL SCALE;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84940868061     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.08.091     Document Type: Article

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