TY - JOUR
T1 - Ecodesign - Carbon Footprint - Life Cycle Assessment - Life Cycle Sustainability Analysis. A Flexible Framework for a Continuum of Tools
AU - Heijungs, Reinout
PY - 2010/1/1
Y1 - 2010/1/1
N2 - Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool for answering questions related to environmental impacts of products. It is a comprehensive tool, addressing the entire life cycle, and addressing the full spectrum of environmental impacts. There are two opposite movements occurring: LCA is getting smaller, and it is getting broader. This presentation presents the general framework for a broader life cycle sustainability analysis (LCSA), and shows how the practical work related to doing an LCA, a carbon footprint, or an analysis for ecodesign, can be seen as special cases.
AB - Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool for answering questions related to environmental impacts of products. It is a comprehensive tool, addressing the entire life cycle, and addressing the full spectrum of environmental impacts. There are two opposite movements occurring: LCA is getting smaller, and it is getting broader. This presentation presents the general framework for a broader life cycle sustainability analysis (LCSA), and shows how the practical work related to doing an LCA, a carbon footprint, or an analysis for ecodesign, can be seen as special cases.
KW - carbon footprint
KW - ecodesign
KW - life cycle assessment
KW - life cycle sustainability analysis
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U2 - 10.2478/v10145-010-0016-5
DO - 10.2478/v10145-010-0016-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84995582225
VL - 4
SP - 42
EP - 46
JO - Environmental and Climate Technologies
JF - Environmental and Climate Technologies
SN - 1691-5208
IS - 1
ER -
