Streamlined Life-cycle Assessment

This book examines the question of what makes one design environmentally preferable to another. Graedel discusses data and analyzes the streamlined life-cycle assessment process in the context of the goals of a particular process or product.

FEATURES

• Discusses environmental objectives as the basis of life-cycle assessment.
• Focuses on streamlined LCAs, a technique common in industry today.
• Includes unique coverage of the assessment of societal infrastructures (Ch. 12).
• Ends with a hypothetical discussion of what an environmentally perfect product might look like.
• Includes useful checklists for performing SLCA.