Editors:
- Offers an authoritative reference work on life cycle impact assessment
- Thoroughly explores the selection of impact categories and the classification of inventory flows for all the impacts that are frequently covered in life cycle assessment
- Includes chapter-length discussion of characterisation at midpoint and endpoint level for all the impact categories that are commonly included in LCA , including Climate Change; Stratospheric Ozone Depletion; Human Toxicity; Particulate Matter Formation and many more
Part of the book series: LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment (LCAC)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book offers a detailed presentation of the principles and practice of life cycle impact assessment. As a volume of the LCA compendium, the book is structured according to the LCIA framework developed by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)passing through the phases of definition or selection of impact categories, category indicators and characterisation models (Classification): calculation of category indicator results (Characterisation); calculating the magnitude of category indicator results relative to reference information (Normalisation); and converting indicator results of different impact categories by using numerical factors based on value-choices (Weighting).
Chapter one offers a historical overview of the development of life cycle impact assessment and presents the boundary conditions and the general principles and constraints of characterisation modelling in LCA. The second chapter outlines the considerations underlying the selection of impact categories and the classification or assignment of inventory flows into these categories. Chapters three through thirteen exploreall the impact categories that are commonly included in LCIA, discussing the characteristics of each followed by a review of midpoint and endpoint characterisation methods, metrics, uncertainties and new developments, and a discussion of research needs. Chapter-length treatment is accorded to Climate Change; Stratospheric Ozone Depletion; Human Toxicity; Particulate Matter Formation; Photochemical Ozone Formation; Ecotoxicity; Acidification; Eutrophication; Land Use; Water Use; and Abiotic Resource Use. The final two chapters map out the optional LCIA steps of Normalisation and Weighting.
Reviews
“It is very much both a text book and reference and reads much like the work of an individual author. … The visual effects are excellent, with very useful color charts. … The format is easy to read and the information in tables spaced well so they are comprehensible. … is highly recommended, for academics and industrialists alike, as the definitive volume on impact assessment and one could imagine young practitioners beginning their career reading the 15 chapters therein.” (David Hunkeler, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Vol. 20, 2015)
“We highly appreciate the volume for its comprehensive, consistent and well readable overview of LCIA. Information from a large variety of sources is brought coherently together, and the volume overall gives a good review of state-of-the-art science and practice and challenges ahead.” (J. Potting and G. Finnveden, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Vol. 20, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
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Division for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Lyngby, Denmark
Michael Z. Hauschild
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Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Mark A.J. Huijbregts
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Life Cycle Impact Assessment
Editors: Michael Z. Hauschild, Mark A.J. Huijbregts
Series Title: LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9744-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9743-6Published: 01 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0404-3Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9744-3Published: 24 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2214-3505
Series E-ISSN: 2214-3513
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 339
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Sustainable Development, Environmental Management, Industrial Pollution Prevention, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution