Life Cycle Assessment Handbook

<p>Preface xix</p>
<p>1 Environmental Life Cycle Assessment: Background and Perspective 1<br /> Gjalt Huppes and Mary Ann Curran</p>
<p>Part 1: Methodology and Current State of LCA Practice</p>
<p>2 An Overview of the Life Cycle Assessment Method – Past, Present, and Future 15<br /> Reinout Heijungs and Jeroen B. Guinee</p>
<p>3. Life Cycle Inventory Modeling in Practice 43<br /> Beverly Sauer</p>
<p>4 Life Cycle Impact Assessment 67<br /> Manuele Margni and Mary Ann Curran</p>
<p>5 Sourcing Life Cycle Inventory Data 105<br /> Mary Ann Curran</p>
<p>6 Software for Life Cycle Assessment 143<br /> Andreas Ctroth</p>
<p>Part 2: LCA Applications</p>
<p>7 Modeling the Agri–Food Industry with Life Cycle Assessment 159<br /> Bruno Notarnicola, Giuseppe Tassielli and Pietro A. Renzulli</p>
<p>Exergy Analysis and its Connection to Life Cycle Assessment 185<br /> Marc A. Rosen, Ibrahim Dincer and Ahmet Ozbilen</p>
<p>Accounting for Ecosystem Goods and Services in Life Cycle Assessment and Process Design 217<br /> Erin F. Landers, Robert A. Urban and Bhavtk R. Baksht</p>
<p>A Case Study of the Practice of Sustainable Supply</p>
<p>Chain Management 233<br /> Annie Wetsbrod and Larry Loftus</p>
<p>Life Cycle Assessment and End of Life Materials Management 249<br /> Keith A. Weitz</p>
<p>Application of LCA in Mining and Minerals Processing Current Programs and Noticeable Gaps 267<br /> Dr. Mary Stewart, Dr. Peter Holt and Mr. Rob Rouwette</p>
<p>Sustainable Preservative–Treated Forest Products, Their Life Cycle Environmental Impacts, and End of Life Management Opportunities: A Case Study 291<br /> Christopher A. Bolin</p>
<p>Buildings, Systems Thinking, and Life Cycle Assessment 311<br /> Joel Ann Todd</p>
<p>Life Cycle Assessment in Product Innovation 329<br /> Nuno Da Silva</p>
<p>Life Cycle Assessment as a Tool in Food Waste Reduction and Packaging Optimization – Packaging Innovation and Optimization in a Life Cycle Perspective 345<br /> Ole J&ouml;rgen Haussen, Hanne Moller, Erik Svanes and Vibeke Schakenda</p>
<p>Integration of LCA and Life–Cycle Thinking within the Themes of Sustainable Chemistry &amp; Engineering 369<br /> Shawn Hunter, Richard Helling and Dawn Shiang</p>
<p>Part 3: LCA Supports Decision Making and Sustainability</p>
<p>18 How to Approach the Assessment? 391<br /> Jose Potting, Shabbtr Gheewala, Sebastten Bonnet and Joost van Buuren</p>
<p>19 Integration of MCDA Tools in Valuation of Comparative Life Cycle Assessment 413<br /> Valenttna Prado, Kristen Rogers and Thomas P. Seager PhD</p>
<p>Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Technique Providing a New Wealth of Information to Inform Sustainability–Related Decision Making 433<br /> Catherine Benott Norris</p>
<p>Life Cycle Sustainability Analysis 453<br /> Alessandra Zamagni, Jeroen Guinee, Reinout Hetjungs and Paolo Masoni</p>
<p>22 Environmental Product Claims and Life Cycle Assessment 475<br /> Martha J. Stevenson and Wesley W. Ingwersen</p>
<p>Part 4: Operationalizing LCA</p>
<p>23 Building Capacity for Life Cycle Assessment in Developing Countries 545<br /> Prof. Toolseeram Ramjeawon</p>
<p>Environmental Accountability: A New Paradigm for World Trade is Emerging 563<br /> Ann K. Ngo</p>
<p>Life Cycle Knowledge Informs Greener Products 585<br /> James Fava</p>
<p>Index 597</p>