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Ambiguities in Decision-oriented Life Cycle Inventories The Role of Mental Models and Values /

In an environmental life cycle assessment of products (LCA), an unambiguous, scientifically based, 'objective' attribution of material and energy flows to a product is pure fiction. This is due to the fundamental epistemological conditions of LCA as a modelling process under the complexity...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Werner, Frank (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edición:1st ed. 2005.
Colección:Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science ; 17
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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