Social life cycle assessment for material selection: a case study of building materials

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Tập 19 Số 3 - Trang 620-645 - 2014
Seyed Abbas Hosseinijou1, Saeed Mansour1, Mohsen Akbarpour Shirazi1
1Department of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

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