Towards consensus on land use impacts on biodiversity in LCA: UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative preliminary recommendations based on expert contributions

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 112, Issue , 2016, Pages 4283-4287

  Teixeira, Ricardo F M ^a   De Souza, Danielle Maia ^b   Curran, Michael P ^c   Antón, Assumpció ^d   Michelsen, Ottar ^e   Milá I Canals, Llorenc ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d IRTA   (Spain)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^f Industry and Economics   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecology; Land use; Life cycle assessment; Life cycle impact assessment; UNEP SETAC life cycle initiative

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; LAND USE; SUPPLY CHAINS;

CONSENSUS BUILDINGS; ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT MODEL; LIFE CYCLE IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY; UNEP/SETAC LIFE CYCLE INITIATIVE; UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84955121828     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.07.118     Document Type: Article

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