Environmental footprint of cultivating strawberry in Spain

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Strawberry is cultivated worldwide under different production systems. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology has been applied to evaluate...     

Development of LCA benchmarks for Austrian torrent control structures

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - This study emerged from a research project that aimed to develop a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) model for torrent control structures. This...     

Water scarcity in Brazil: part 2—uncertainty assessment in regionalized characterization factors

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Despite recommendations, uncertainty results are rarely incorporated in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies, especially regarding...     

A taste of the new ReCiPe for life cycle assessment: consequences of the updated impact assessment method on food product LCAs

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Recently, an update of the Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) method ReCiPe was released: ReCiPe 2016. The aim of this study was to analyse the...     

Teaching life cycle assessment in higher education

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Scientific Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) literature provides some examples of LCA teaching in higher education, but not a structured overview of...     

The enhanced LCA Resources Directory: a tool aimed at improving Life Cycle Thinking practices

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - To support life cycle-based EU policies, the European Commission created the “European Platform on Life Cycle Assessment (EPLCA).”...     

Contribution-based prioritization of LCI database improvements: the most important unit processes in ecoinvent

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Improving the quality and quantity of unit process datasets in Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) databases affects every LCA they are used in. However,...     

Harmonized rules for future LCAs on pharmaceutical products and processes

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - The manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and their occurrence in the environment generated growing concerns of stakeholders. Life Cycle Assessment...     

Environmental life cycle implications of upscaling lithium-ion battery production

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Life cycle assessment (LCA) literature evaluating environmental burdens from lithium-ion battery (LIB) production facilities lacks an...     

Both completing system boundaries and realistic modeling of the economy are of interest for life cycle assessment—a reply to “Moving from completing system boundaries to more realistic modeling of the economy in life cycle assessment” by Yang and Heijungs (2018)

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - As Yang and Heijungs (Int J Life Cycle Assess https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-018-1532-y , 2018) bring forward, there is indeed a need for...     

LCA in Japan: policy and progress

A summary of the current Japanese activities related to Life Cycle Assessment are presented with a specific comparison of Life Cycle Impact Assessment in relation to European tendencies. Japanese organizations involved in LCA, recent legislation impacting LCA activities and LCA case studies are also tabulated. The LCA priorities of policy makers and industrialists are discussed in comparison and compared to those in the United States. Projects within the Life Cycle Assessment Society of Japan and the Man-Earth Project are highlighted including the construction of a public LCI data base and the prediction of 21st century environmental crises.     

The Bioeconomy in emerging economies: a study of the critical success factors based on Life Cycle Assessment and Delphi and Fuzzy-Delphi methods

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - The aim of this research was to identify and analyze the critical success factors for Bioeconomy development in Brazil, considering Life Cycle...     

End-of-life modelling of buildings to support more informed decisions towards achieving circular economy targets

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an internationally accepted method to assess the environmental impacts of buildings. A major methodological...     

The evolution of life cycle assessment in European policies over three decades

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Life cycle thinking (LCT) and life cycle assessment (LCA) are increasingly considered pivotal concept and method for supporting...     

Inclusion of prevention scenarios in LCA of construction waste management

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been applied extensively for the environmental evaluation of solid waste management. However, there are only a...     

Environmental impact assessment of biomass process chains at early design stages using decision trees

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Life cycle assessment (LCA) is generally considered as a suitable methodology for the evaluation of environmental impacts of processes. However,...     

Accounting for biodiversity in life cycle impact assessments of forestry and agricultural systems—the BioImpact metric

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a useful method for assessing environmental impacts at large scales. Biodiversity and ecosystem diversity are...     

Comparing sources and analysis of uncertainty in consequential and attributional life cycle assessment: review of current practice and recommendations

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Life cycle assessment (LCA) is intended as a quantitative decision support tool. However, the large amount of uncertainty characteristic of LCA...     

Distribution of environmental performance in life cycle assessments—implications for environmental benchmarking

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment - Life cycle assessment (LCA) is considered a robust method to analyse the environmental impacts of products and is used in public and private...