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Rethinking Environmental Performance from a Public Health Perspective: A Comparative Industry Analysis
2005
Journal of Industrial Ecology
To date the most common measures of environmental performance used to compare industries, and by extension firms or facilities, have been quantity of pollution emitted or hazardous waste generated. Discharge information, however, does not necessarily capture potential health effects. We propose an alternative environmental performance measure that includes the public health risks of toxic air emissions extended to industry supply chains using economic input-output life-cycle assessment. Cancer
doi:10.1162/1088198054821627
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