Life Cycle Assessment (Lca) - Quo Vadis? (Themenhefte Schwerpunktprogramm Umwelt) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3764353414 ISBN 13: 9783764353414

Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG, 1996

Synopsis

LCA - Quo vadis? discusses overarching topics, new developments and major problems of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and compares LCA with site-specific environmental management. The text profits from two years of interdisciplinary, coordinated research activities of the Priority Programme Environment of the Swiss National Science Foundation. How should system boundaries of a product life cycle be drawn? * How can environmental interventions be allocated to products? * How are background inventory data collected and used? * How can imprecision in the LCA method be ascertained and checked? * How can relevant environmental interventions be distinguished from irrelevant ones? * What requirements should a software tool for LCA meet? A concept of site-specific LCA is proposed in response to criticism of the current approach of LCA. Furthermore, managerial eco-controlling - the emerging method of site-specific environmental management - is discussed. The book concludes with an outlook of possible paths in the future development of LCA.

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Synopsis

This work discusses overarching topics, new developments, and major problems of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and compares LCA with site-specific environmental management. Topics covered include: the system boundaries of a product life cycle; allocating environmental interventions to products; the collection and use of background inventory data; the ascertaining and checking of imprecision in the LCA method; distinguishing relevant environmental interventions from irrelevant ones; and what requirements should be met by a software tool for LCA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3764353414
• ISBN 13: 9783764353414
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 188
• Editor: Schaltegger Stefan