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Environmental life cycle assessment

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Environmental Life Cycle Assessment is a pivotal guide to identifying environmental problems and reducing related impacts for companies and organizations in need of life cycle assessment (LCA). LCA, a unique sustainability tool, provides a framework that addresses a growing demand for practical technological solutions. Detailing each phase of the LCA methodology, this textbook covers the historical development of LCA, presents the general principles and characteristics of LCA, and outlines the corresponding standards for good practice determined by the International Organization for Standardization. It also explains how to identify the critical aspects of an LCA, provides detailed examples of LCA analysis and applications, and includes illustrated problems and solutions with concrete examples from water management, electronics, packaging, automotive, and other industries.

In addition, readers will learn how to:

Use consistent criteria to realize and evaluate an LCA independently of individual interests
Understand the LCA methodology and become familiar with existing databases and methods based on the latest results of international research
Analyze and critique a completed LCA
Apply LCA methodology to simple case studies
Geared toward graduate and undergraduate students studying environmental science and industrial ecology, as well as practicing environmental engineers, and sustainability professionals who want to teach themselves LCA good practices, Environmental Life Cycle Assessment demonstrates how to conduct environmental assessments for products throughout their life cycles. It presents existing methods and recent developments in the growing field of LCA and systematically covers goal and system definition, life cycle inventory, life cycle impact assessment, and interpretation.

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333 JOL e

Publisher

Boca Raton : CRC Press., 2015

Collation

332 p

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780429111051

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333

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Environment & Agriculture

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Statement of Responsibility

Olliver Jolliet

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Maya

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1201/b19138

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