Recent developments in life cycle assessment

G Finnveden, MZ Hauschild, T Ekvall, J Guinée… - Journal of environmental …, 2009 - Elsevier
Life Cycle Assessment is a tool to assess the environmental impacts and resources used
throughout a product's life cycle, ie, from raw material acquisition, via production and use …

Life cycle assessment Part 2: Current impact assessment practice

DW Pennington, J Potting, G Finnveden… - Environment …, 2004 - Elsevier
Providing our society with goods and services contributes to a wide range of environmental
impacts. Waste generation, emissions and the consumption of resources occur at many …

IMPACT 2002+: a new life cycle impact assessment methodology

O Jolliet, M Margni, R Charles, S Humbert… - The international journal …, 2003 - Springer
The new IMPACT 2002+ life cycle impact assessment methodology proposes a feasible
implementation of a combined midpoint/damage approach, linking all types of life cycle …

[PDF][PDF] IMPACT 2002+: user guide

S Humbert, M Margni, O Jolliet - Draft for version Q, 2012 - quantis.com
The life cycle impact assessment methodology IMPACT 2002+ vQ2. 2 (version adapted by
Quantis) proposes a feasible implementation of a combined midpoint/damage approach …

USEtox human exposure and toxicity factors for comparative assessment of toxic emissions in life cycle analysis: sensitivity to key chemical properties

RK Rosenbaum, MAJ Huijbregts… - … International Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Purpose The aim of this paper is to provide science-based consensus and guidance for
health effects modelling in comparative assessments based on human exposure and …

Human‐toxicological effect and damage factors of carcinogenic and noncarcinogenic chemicals for life cycle impact assessment

MAJ Huijbregts, LJA Rombouts… - Integrated …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical fate, effect, and damage should be accounted for in the analysis of human health
impacts by toxic chemicals in life‐cycle assessment (LCA). The goal of this article is to …

Critical review of methods for risk ranking of food-related hazards, based on risks for human health

HJ Van der Fels-Klerx, ED Van Asselt… - Critical reviews in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This study aimed to critically review methods for ranking risks related to food safety and
dietary hazards on the basis of their anticipated human health impacts. A literature review …

A flexible matrix algebra framework for the multimedia multipathway modeling of emission to impacts

RK Rosenbaum, M Margni, O Jolliet - Environment international, 2007 - Elsevier
When assessing human health or ecosystem impacts of chemicals several calculation steps
need to be addressed. Matrix algebra solving techniques are a useful approach to structure …

[HTML][HTML] Life cycle assessment (LCA)–from analysing methodology development to introducing an LCA framework for marine photovoltaic (PV) systems

J Ling-Chin, O Heidrich, AP Roskilly - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Previously, life cycle assessment (LCA) focussing on principles or applications has been
considerably reviewed. Still, an up-to-date review on LCA methodology development (rather …

Comparative assessment of technological systems for recycling sludge and food waste aimed at greenhouse gas emissions reduction and phosphorus recovery

T Nakakubo, A Tokai, K Ohno - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2012 - Elsevier
We used life cycle assessment to compare alternative technologies for the disposal of
sewage sludge and food waste with the aim of identifying the preferred methods for reducing …