The Role of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Development and Application

2014 ◽  
pp. 39-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Fava ◽  
Andrea Smerek ◽  
Almut B. Heinrich ◽  
Laura Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Toxicology

The role of service life in Life Cycle Assessment of concrete structures

2020 ◽  
pp. 125610
Author(s):  
Snežana Marinković ◽  
Vedran Carević ◽  
Jelena Dragaš
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Service Life ◽  
Concrete Structures

scholarly journals Life Cycle Assessment and Judgement

NanoEthics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-283
Author(s):  
Christopher Nathan ◽  
Stuart Coles
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Free Inquiry ◽  
Technology Project ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
Technology Product

AbstractIt has become a standard for researchers carrying out biotechnology projects to do a life cycle assessment (LCA). This is a process for assessing the environmental impact of a technology, product or policy. Doing so is no simple matter, and in the last decades, a rich set of methodologies has developed around LCA. However, the proper methods and meanings of the process remain contested. Preceding the development of the international standard that now governs LCA, there was a lively debate in the academic community about the inclusion of ‘values’ within the process. We revisit this debate and reconsider the way forward for LCA. We set out ways in which those outside of science can provide input into LCAs by informing the value assumptions at stake. At the same time, we will emphasize that the role of those within the scientific community need not (and sometimes, will inevitably not) involve value-free inquiry. We carry out this exploration through a case study of a particular technology project that sought ways to produce industrial and consumer products from algal oils.

The Role of Washing Machines in Life Cycle Assessment Studies

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. Cullen ◽  
Julian M. Allwood
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Washing Machines

Role of the use phase and pavement-vehicle interaction in comparative pavement life cycle assessment as a function of context

2019 ◽  
Vol 230 ◽  
pp. 1156-1164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Xu ◽  
Mehdi Akbarian ◽  
Jeremy Gregory ◽  
Randolph Kirchain
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Use Phase

scholarly journals Introducing Life Cycle Assessment in Costs and Benefits Analysis of Vegetation Management in Drainage Canals of Lowland Agricultural Landscapes

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 2236
Author(s):  
Elena Tamburini ◽  
Elisa Soana ◽  
Mauro Monti ◽  
Elisa Anna Fano ◽  
Giuseppe Castaldelli
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Nitrogen Removal ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Aquatic Vegetation ◽  
Vegetation Management ◽  
Nitrate Pollution ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Costs And Benefits

Nitrate pollution remains an unsolved issue worldwide, causing serious effects on water quality and eutrophication of freshwater and brackish water environments. Its economic costs are still underestimated. To reduce nitrogen excess, constructed wetlands are usually recognized as a solution but, in recent years, interest has been raised in the role of ditches and canals in nitrogen removal. In this study, we investigated the environmental and economical sustainability of nitrogen removal capacity, using as a model study a lowland agricultural sub-basin of the Po River (Northern Italy), where the role of aquatic vegetation and related microbial processes on the mitigation of nitrate pollution has been extensively studied. Based on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach and costs and benefits analysis (CBA), the effectiveness of two different scenarios of vegetation management, which differ for the timing of mowing, have been compared concerning the nitrogen removal via denitrification and other terms of environmental sustainability. The results highlighted that postponing the mowing to the end of the vegetative season would contribute to buffering up to 90% of the nitrogen load conveyed by the canal network during the irrigation period and would reduce by an order of magnitude the costs of eutrophication potential.

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