Overview
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.
- | Author: S. Schaltegger
- | Publisher: Birkhauser
- | Publication Date: Dec 12, 2011
- | Number of Pages: 188 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 3034898711
- | ISBN-13: 9783034898713
