The Ecological Footprint Accounting of Products: When Larger Is Not Worse
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Ecological footprint accounting in the life cycle assessment of products
Mark A.J. Huijbregts⁎, Stefanie Hellweg, Rolf Frischknecht, Konrad Hungerbühler, A. Jan Hendriks Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland ecoinvent Centre, Empa, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland Institute for Chemicaland Bioengineering, ETH Zuri...
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عنوان ژورنال: Resources
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2079-9276
DOI: 10.3390/resources7040065