Overview of environmental footprints

Assessing and Measuring Environmental Impact and Sustainability

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 131-193

  Čuček, Lidija ^a   Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír ^a   Kravanja, Zdravko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Environmental footprints; Environmental indicators; Life cycle assessment; Multi objective optimisation; Sustainable development; Total Footprints

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LIFE CYCLE; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINTS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); SUSTAINABILITY EVALUATIONS; TOTAL FOOTPRINTS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84944403564     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-799968-5.00005-1     Document Type: Chapter

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