Water Footprint Assessment in Supply Chains

Springer Series in Supply Chain Management

Volumn 4, Issue , 2017, Pages 65-85

  Hoekstra, Arjen Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Input output modelling; Life cycle assessment; Product transparency; Supply chain; Sustainability; Water footprint assessment; Water pricing; Water risk; Water stewardship

Indexed keywords

EID: 85118785179     PISSN: 23656395     EISSN: 23656409     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29791-0_4     Document Type: Chapter

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