Life Cycle Assessment
A specific technique with existing ISO standards (ISO 14044).
Review the current standard for the actual in-use implementation.
European Committee For Standardization. ‘Environmental Management - Life Cycle Assessment - Requirements and Guidelines’. European Standard, BS EN ISO 14044:2006+A1:2018. Brussels: The British Standards Institution, 2018.
In brief:
Three goals:
- regulation requirement
- customer demand
- business purpose
Depends on:
- a concrete frame
- a unit of assessment
- some stopping
Inventory depends on existing product information or on industry averages.
Ecoinvent inventory database
In Relation to Biodiversity
Winter, Lisa, Annekatrin Lehmann, Natalia Finogenova, and Matthias Finkbeiner. ‘Including Biodiversity in Life Cycle Assessment: State of the Art, Gaps and Research Needs’. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 67 (2017): 88–100. https://doi.org/10/gm345r.
Lindner, Jan Paul, Horst Fehrenbach, Lisa Winter, Judith Bloemer, and Eva Knuepffer. ‘Valuing Biodiversity in Life Cycle Impact Assessment’. Sustainability 11, no. 20 (2019): 5628. https://doi.org/10/ggkcxp.
Balkau, Fritz, Alberto Bezama, Noemie Leroy-Parmentier, and Guido Sonnemann. ‘A Review on the Use of Life Cycle Methodologies and Tools in Sustainable Regional Development’. Sustainability 13, no. 19 (2021): 10881. https://doi.org/10/gq5nc7.
Vrasdonk, Emke. ‘Towards Inclusion of Biodiversity in Life Cycle Assessment’. PhD Thesis, Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola, 2020.
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