Significance of environmental footprints for evaluating sustainability and security of development

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2125-2141

  Čuček, Lidija ^a   Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír ^a   Varbanov, Petar Sabev ^a   Kravanja, Zdravko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Environmental footprints; Footprint family Planetary boundaries; Life cycle assessment; Sustainable development; Total footprints

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GREENHOUSE GASES; LIFE CYCLE;

ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINTS; FOOTPRINT FAMILY; FUTURE OBSERVATIONS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE PERSPECTIVES; SIMULTANEOUS ANALYSIS; TOTAL FOOTPRINTS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85014813085     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-015-0972-3     Document Type: Article

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