Life Cycle Assessment Handbook: A Guide for Environmentally Sustainable Products

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