EFO-LCI: A New Life Cycle Inventory Database of Forestry Operations in Europe.
Life cycle assessment (LCA) has become a common methodology to analyze environmental impacts of forestry systems. Although LCA has been widely applied to forestry since the 90s, the LCAs are still often based on generic Life Cycle Inventory (LCI). With the purpose of improving LCA practices in the f...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Management Vol. 61; no. 6; pp. 1031 - 1048 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2018
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