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 …

Purpose This paper addresses the need for a globally regionalized method for life cycle
impact assessment (LCIA), integrating multiple state-of-the-art developments as well as …

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 …

SimaPro and GaBi are the leading software tools used for life cycle assessments. Assessing
product systems applying the exact same unit process foundation would be expected to …

Abstract TRACI 2.0, the Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and other
environmental Impacts 2.0, has been expanded and developed for sustainability metrics, life …

This paper aims to determine the environmental aspects of a less impactful municipal solid
waste management system through life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. In order to …

This chapter is dedicated to the third phase of an LCA study, the Life Cycle Impact
Assessment (LCIA) where the life cycle inventory's information on elementary flows is …

The new IMPACT 2002+ life cycle impact assessment methodology proposes a feasible
implementation of a combined midpoint/damage approach, linking all types of life cycle …