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Background and Future Prospects in Life Cycle Assessment

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Walter Klöpffer

    1. LCA Consult & Review, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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  • The first volume of a major new book series: LCA Compendium -The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment
  • Offers experts’ perspectives on state-of-the-art LCA practice, including both strengths and limitations
  • Introduces LCA in a comprehensive manner, illuminating all aspects of LCA practice and application in detail
  • Provides historical information and references on the fundamentals of LCA practice and future development
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introducing Life Cycle Assessment and its Presentation in ‘LCA Compendium’

    • Walter Klöpffer
    Pages 1-37

  3. The Role of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Development and Application

    • James A. Fava, Andrea Smerek, Almut B. Heinrich, Laura Morrison
    Pages 39-83

  4. The International Standards as the Constitution of Life Cycle Assessment: The ISO 14040 Series and its Offspring

    • Matthias Finkbeiner
    Pages 85-106

  5. The UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative

    • Guido Sonnemann, Sonia Valdivia
    Pages 107-144

  6. Life Cycle Assessment as Reflected by the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

    • Almut B. Heinrich
    Pages 145-188

  7. Strengths and Limitations of Life Cycle Assessment

    • Mary Ann Curran
    Pages 189-206

  8. Challenges in Life Cycle Assessment: An Overview of Current Gaps and Research Needs

    • Matthias Finkbeiner, Robert Ackermann, Vanessa Bach, Markus Berger, Gerhard Brankatschk, Ya-Ju Chang et al.
    Pages 207-258

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 259-262
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has become the recognized instrument to assess the ecological burdens and human health impacts connected with the complete life cycle (creation, use, end-of-life) of products, processes and activities, enabling the assessor to model the entire system from which products are derived or in which processes and activities operate. This volume introduces the major new book series LCA Compendium - The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment. In this volume, the main drivers in the development of LCA are explored. The volume also discusses strengths and limitations in LCA as well as challenges and gaps, thus offering an unbiased picture of the state-of-the-art and future of LCA.

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  • LCA Consult & Review, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Walter Klöpffer

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