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  1. Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Building 426, Lyngby, Denmark

    Michael Hauschild

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  1. Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada

    Luc Laperrière

  2. Technische Universität München, München, Germany

    Gunther Reinhart

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Hauschild, M. (2014). Environmental Impact Assessment. In: Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20617-7_6606

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