Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) - Quo vadis?

S. Schaltegger

ISBN 10: 3034898711 / ISBN 13: 9783034898713

Verlag: Birkhäuser Basel, Springer Basel Dez 2011, 2011

Beschreibung

Neuware -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.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 204 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783034898713

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) - Quo vadis?
• Verlag: Birkhäuser Basel, Springer Basel Dez 2011
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3034898711
• ISBN-13: 9783034898713
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 244B x 170 H x 12 T Millimeter Breite: 244 mm, Höhe: 170 mm, Tiefe: 12 mm
• Gewicht: 362 Gramm

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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.