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 …

Sustainable development requires methods and tools to measure and compare the
environmental impacts of human activities for the provision of goods and services (both of …

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 …

Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) has developed fast over the last three decades.
Whereas LCA developed from merely energy analysis to a comprehensive environmental …

The aim of this paper is to provide a categorisation of sustainability assessment tools within
the broader objective of lifting the understanding of sustainability assessment from the …

Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) is one of various management tools for evaluating
environmental concerns. This paper reviews LCA from a buildings perspective. It highlights …

With increasing use of biomass for energy, questions arise about the validity of bioenergy as
a means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil fuels. Life Cycle …

Methods for Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) compilation are reviewed and compared. In total, six
methods are distinguished. They are LCI computation using process flow diagram; matrix …

This paper focuses on a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of four waste management strategies:
landfill without biogas utilization; landfill with biogas combustion to generate electricity; …

The number of tools and approaches to develop sustainability is growing rapidly. Sometimes
they are presented as if they are contradictory or in competition. However, a systems …