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Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services
Chris T Hendrickson
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Description for Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services
Paperback. Summarizes the EIO-LCA method, explains its use in relation to other life cycle assessment models, and provides sample applications and extensions of the model into novel areas. This book is suitable for research, industry, and those in economics, engineering, or interdisciplinary classes in green design. Num Pages: 274 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCN; KND; KNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
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. But the focus on one aspect of a product or service can result in misleading indications if that aspect is ... Read more
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. But the focus on one aspect of a product or service can result in misleading indications if that aspect is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9781933115245
SKU
V9781933115245
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Ref
99-1
About Chris T Hendrickson
Chris T. Hendrickson is the Duquesne Light Company Professor of Engineering, head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, director of the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Engineering and Research, and co-director of the Green Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Lester B. Lave is the Harry B. and James H. Higgins Professor of Economics in the Carnegie ... Read more
Reviews for Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services
'[This book] is sure to find its place on the shelf of both specialists and generalists interested in knowing more about the potential for life cycle analysis - and its variant EIO-LCA - to advance the rationalization of decisionmaking in the sustainable development context.' Inside Green Business