Life Cycle Assessment in environmental impact assessments of industrial projects: Towards the improvement

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 106, Issue , 2015, Pages 533-540

  Židoniene, Sigita ^a   Kruopiene, Jolita ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

EIA; Impact assessment; Industrial planning; LCA

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; INSULATING MATERIALS; INSULATION;

EIA; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; INDUSTRIAL PLANNING; INSULATION MATERIALS; LCA; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA);

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 85027924916     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.07.081     Document Type: Conference Paper

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