Sustainability Assessment Tools – State of Research and Gap Analysis

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Sustainability Assessment Tools – State of Research and Gap Analysis

Marco Taisch, Vahid Sadr, Gökan May, Bojan Stahl

To cite this version:

Marco Taisch, Vahid Sadr, Gökan May, Bojan Stahl. Sustainability Assessment Tools – State of

Research and Gap Analysis. 20th Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS), Sep 2013,

State College, PA, United States. pp.426-434, �10.1007/978-3-642-41263-9_53�. �hal-01449750�

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