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LCA a practical guide for students, designers and business managers Joost Vogtländer 2012 2nd Edition / x + 118 pp.. / paperback / ISBN 978-90-6562-311-9 / Euro 9.50 Also available at 1boek.nl. Ebook ISBN 9789065622679 Related publications: A Quick Reference Guide to LCA DATA and eco-based Materials Selection The Eco-costs/Value Ratio: EVR, LCA-based assessment of sustainability Eco-efficient Value Creation, sustainable design and business strategies Bamboo, a sustainable solution for Western Europe Levenscyclusanalyse voor onderzoekers, ontwerpers en beleidsmakers (in Dutch) Materials Science in Design and Engineering x	978-90-6562-196-2 978-90-6562-208-2
A 'Fast Track' guide to LCA Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a well defined method to calculate the environmental burden of a product or service, has been made so complex that it seems to be a job for specialists only. This 'Practical Guide' to LCA gives a hands on approach for students, designers, architects, and business managers with limited time. Starting with the common sense, and building on it with practical solutions for, sometimes, complex issues (like recycling). To assess the sustainability of your innovative ideas, practical guidance is given during the decision making process. It does not take a lot of time and a lot of money. The 'Fast Track' LCA of this guide can be made in hours, and is just as accurate as the classical LCA. This guide shows also the way to enable cradle-to-cradle calculations: It provides practical solutions to calculate the impact of recycling It shows how to start with LCA in the early ('fussy') design stages ('Life Cycle Design') 2nd Edition: After two years of intensive use of the First Edition, it was decided to issue the Second Edition, with a more elaborate explanation on two aspects: how to define the Functional Unit and the Declared Unit, and how to structure recycling calculations. Contents: 1. Introduction • 2. The system you want to study • 3. The step by step approach and LCA as an iterative process • 4. Transport and the use phase • 5. End of life and by-products • 6. LCA of Services • 7. Cradle-to-Cradle • 8. Carbon sequestration in wood • 9. Land-use, water and other issues • Appendices • References • Abbreviations • List of figures and tables • Index	PDF files: prelims Chapter 1
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