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Towards Life Cycle Sustainability Management

  • Goes beyond existing LCA and LCM literature by addressing assessment methods for all three dimensions of sustainability, i.e. environmental, economic and social
  • Addresses up-to-date methodological developments in the field like e.g. water footprinting and stakeholder approaches
  • Contains many real world case studies of companies in a variety of sectors that are commonly not often published in scientific literature

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Table of contents (56 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xliv
  2. LCSM Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. LCSM approaches

    1. Life Cycle Management Capability: An Alternative Approach to Sustainability Assessment

      • Thomas Swarr, James Fava, Allan Astrup Jensen, Sonia Valdivia, Bruce Vigon
      Pages 35-42
    2. The Sustainability Consortium: A Stakeholder Approach to Improve Consumer Product Sustainability

      • Kevin Dooley, Joby Carlson, Georg Schöner, Vairavan Subramanian, Cameron Childs
      Pages 43-52
    3. A Social Hotspot Database for Acquiring Greater Visibility in Product Supply Chains: Overview and Application to Orange Juice

      • Catherine Benoît Norris, Deana Aulisio, Gregory A. Norris, Caroline Hallisey-Kepka, Susan Overakker, Gina Vickery Niederman
      Pages 53-62
  4. LCM Methods and Tools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
  5. LCM methods and tools

    1. A Novel Weighting Method in LCIA and its Application in Chinese Policy Context

      • Hongtao Wang, Ping Hou, Hao Zhang, Duan Weng
      Pages 65-72
    2. The Usefulness of an Actor’s Perspective in LCA

      • Henrikke Baumann, Johanna Berlin, Birgit Brunklaus, Mathias Lindkvist, Birger Löfgren, Anne-Marie Tillman
      Pages 73-83
    3. Review on Land Use Considerations in Life Cycle Assessment: Methodological Perspectives for Marine Ecosystems

      • Juliette Langlois, Arnaud Hélias, Jean-Philippe Delgenès, Jean-Philippe Steyer
      Pages 85-96
    4. Visual Accounting

      • Andreas Moeller, Martina Prox
      Pages 97-106
    5. Time and Life Cycle Assessment: How to Take Time into Account in the Inventory Step?

      • Pierre Collet, Arnaud Hélias, Laurent Lardon, Jean-Philippe Steyer
      Pages 119-130
  6. Water Footprint

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
  7. Water footprinting

    1. Comparison of Water Footprint for Industrial Products in Japan, China and USA

      • Sadataka Horie, Ichiro Daigo, Yasunari Matsuno, Yoshihiro Adachi
      Pages 155-160
    2. Assessment of the Water Footprint of Wheat in Mexico

      • Carole Farell, Sylvie Turpin, Nydia Suppen
      Pages 161-170

About this book

This book is a selection of the most relevant contributions to the LCM 2011 conference in Berlin. The material explores scientific and practical solutions to incorporating life cycle approaches into strategic and operational decision making. There are several sections addressing methodological topics such as LCSM approaches, methods and tools, while more application-oriented sections deal with the implementation of these approaches in relevant industrial sectors including agriculture and food, packaging, energy, electronics and ICT, and mobility.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Technischen Umweltschutz, Berlin, Germany

    Matthias Finkbeiner

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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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