Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment - Hardcover

Curran, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 007015063X ISBN 13: 9780070150638

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 1996

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive resource on the rediscovered area of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as it can be applied to human health and the Environment. This book will be organized in order of how a life cycle assessment is done. The reader will also receive a brief history of LCA and it's re-emergence in 1990. There will be a complete investigation of how LCA can be used to help industry meet their environmental goals.

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From the Back Cover

Improve the environmental profile of your company's products and processes with life-cycle assessment Today, there is a growing awareness that companies across all sectors of industry must take life-cycle responsibility for their activities from "cradle to grave." Life-cycle assessment (LCA) offers a new and powerful way of looking at these activites and their impact on the environment. Let a team of international experts on the cutting edge of LCA help you improve the environmental profile of your company's products and processes. This comprehensive book leads you step by step through the intricacies of this otherwise complicated process, showing how to conduct a complete life-cycle study from start to finish. You'll find clear, detailed coverage of the full range of essential LCA concepts and activities, including: Life-cycle inventory methodology; Life-cycle costing and total cost assessment; Life-cycle design including needs analysis, formulating requirements, employing selected strategies, and performing evaluations; LCA software tools and databases. Filled with a wealth of real-world examples and case studies from the public and private sectors, the book illustrates how LCA has been useful in making sound decisions on everything from corporate planning to supplier selection to eco-labeling. Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment is an invaluable resource for manufacturers and suppliers, product and process designers, executives and managers, and government officials who want to learn the "ins" and "outs" of this new approach to environmental management for the 21st century.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 007015063X
• ISBN 13: 9780070150638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432