Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services: An Input-Output Approach

ISBN-13: 9781933115238 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 274 str.

Chris T. Hendrickson; Lester B. Lave; H. Scott Matthews

Opis

This is the first comprehensive guide to green design using economic input-output life cycle assessment (EIO-LCA) models. It is a must-have for companies trying to improve the environmental profile of their products and processes, for regulators attempting to quantify life cycle implications of products and services, and for students and scholars of green design. Environmental life cycle assessment is often thought of as cradle to grave and, therefore, as the most complete accounting of the environmental costs and benefits of a product or service. However, as anyone who has done an environmental life cycle assessment knows, existing tools have many problems: data is difficult to assemble and life cycle studies take months of effort. A truly comprehensive analysis is prohibitive, so analysts are often forced to simply ignore many facets of life cycle impacts.