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01.05.2012 | EDITORIAL

Life cycle sustainability assessment

verfasst von: Alessandra Zamagni

Erschienen in: The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment | Ausgabe 4/2012

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Almost 10 years have passed since the first editorial on life cycle-based methods for sustainability assessment by Klöpffer (2003). Sustainability was already a core issue on the political agenda, and this interest was also echoed at scientific levels since many approaches and methods were being proposed and developed. So what happened in the last decade, and why today do I feel the urgency to talk about sustainability assessment? There are three main considerations, which I would like to briefly present. …

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Titel: Life cycle sustainability assessment
verfasst von: Alessandra Zamagni
Publikationsdatum: 01.05.2012
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in: The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment / Ausgabe 4/2012
Print ISSN: 0948-3349
Elektronische ISSN: 1614-7502
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-012-0389-8

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