Sustainable production and consumption in the automotive sector: Integrated review framework and research directions

Sustainable Production and Consumption

Volumn 4, Issue , 2015, Pages 47-61

  Pallaro, Estelle ^a   Subramanian, Nachiappan ^a   Abdulrahman, Muhammad D ^a   Liu, Chang ^b  

^a University of Nottingham   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Automotive; Supply chain; Sustainable consumption; Sustainable production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949234198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23525509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2015.07.002     Document Type: Article

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