A Newcomer's Guide to Life Cycle Assessment - Baselines and Boundaries

From:
Department for International Development
Published
1 January 2015
Document Type:
Working Paper
Theme:
Social Change
Authors:
Gathorne-Hardy, A.

Abstract

Life cycle assessment (LCA) aims to understand the environmental impact of a product or service (termed a functional unit) over its entire life cycle - using ‘standard methodologies’. The concept of LCA is simple – determine all the processes and products needed to produce the functional unit, measure the environmental impacts associated with each, and sum these up. But the reality is more complicated - for a range of reasons, two of which are focused on in this paper.

Citation

Gathorne-Hardy, A. A Newcomer’s Guide to Life Cycle Assessment - Baselines and Boundaries. (2015) 12 pp.

A Newcomer’s Guide to Life Cycle Assessment - Baselines and Boundaries

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Published 1 January 2015
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