Life Cycle Assessment is a tool to assess the environmental impacts and resources used throughout a product's life cycle, ie, from raw material acquisition, via production and use …
This first hands-on guide to ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) makes this powerful tool immediately accessible to both professionals and students. Following a general …
In 1992 the Centre of Environmental Science (CML) at Leiden University, The Netherlands, published a Guide on Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. Many …
RK Rosenbaum, TM Bachmann, LS Gold… - … International Journal of …, 2008 - Springer
Background, aim and scope In 2005, a comprehensive comparison of life cycle impact assessment toxicity characterisation models was initiated by the United Nations …
JC Bare - Journal of industrial ecology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The tool for the reduction and assessment of chemical and other environmental impacts (TRACI) is described along with its history, the research and methodologies it incorporates …
Providing our society with goods and services contributes to a wide range of environmental impacts. Waste generation, emissions and the consumption of resources occur at many …
Food consumption causes, together with mobility, shelter and the use of electrical products, most life cycle impacts of consumption. Meat and dairy are among the highest contributors to …
M Margni, D Rossier, P Crettaz, O Jolliet - Agriculture, ecosystems & …, 2002 - Elsevier
The development of methodologies to assess the effects of pesticides in a consistent way and to enable comparison with the impacts from other agricultural practices is urgently …
JC McGeer, KV Brix, JM Skeaff… - … and Chemistry: An …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The bioconcentration factor (BCF) and bioaccumulation factor (BAF) are used as the criteria for bioaccumulation in the context of identifying and classifying substances that are …