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Life cycle assessment needs predictive spatial modelling for biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Source :
- Nature Communications, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Nature Portfolio, 2017.
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Abstract
- Life cycle assessments are used by corporations to determine the sustainability of raw source materials. Here, Chaplin-Krameret al. develop an improved life cycle assessment approach incorporating spatial variation in land-use change, and apply this framework to a bioplastic case study.
- Subjects :
- Science
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20411723
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Nature Communications
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.5973599fda9a4b16833e1facc3093692
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15065