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The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Issue 2/2018

Content (16 Articles)

COMMENTARY AND DISCUSSION ARTICLE

Why social life cycle assessment is struggling in development?

Nathalie Iofrida, Alfio Strano, Giovanni Gulisano, Anna Irene De Luca

DATA AVAILABILITY, DATA QUALITY

Sensitive parameters in local agricultural life cycle assessments: the illustrative case of cereal production in Wallonia, Belgium

Florence Van Stappen, Michaël Mathot, Astrid Loriers, Alice Delcour, Didier Stilmant, Viviane Planchon, Bernard Bodson, Angélique Léonard, Jean-Pierre Goffart

GREEN CHEMISTRY

LCA case study: comparison between independent and coproduction pathways for the production of ethyl and n-butyl acetates

Cecile Bories, Nydia Ileana Guzman Barrera, Jerome Peydecastaing, Idoia Etxeberria, Emeline Vedrenne, Carlos Vaca Garcia, Sophie Thiebaud-Roux, Caroline Sablayrolles

LCA FOR MANUFACTURING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Life cycle assessment of spectrally tunable light engines

Gabriela Benveniste, Mariano Perálvarez, Jorge Higuera, Josep Carreras

Open Access LCI METHODOLOGY AND DATABASES

A scalable life cycle inventory of an electrical automotive traction machine—Part II: manufacturing processes

Anders Nordelöf, Anne-Marie Tillman

LCIA OF IMPACTS ON HUMAN HEALTH AND ECOSYSTEMS

Assessment of global warming impact on biodiversity using the extinction risk index in LCIA: a case study of Japanese plant species

Longlong Tang, Motoki Higa, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Norihiro Itsubo

LCIA OF IMPACTS ON HUMAN HEALTH AND ECOSYSTEMS

Sensitivity-based research prioritization through stochastic characterization modeling

Ben A. Wender, Valentina Prado, Peter Fantke, Dwarakanath Ravikumar, Thomas P. Seager

ROADWAYS AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Comparative life cycle assessment of sport utility vehicles with different fuel options

Enes Karaaslan, Yang Zhao, Omer Tatari

SOCIETAL LCA

Assessing the social impacts of nano-enabled products through the life cycle: the case of nano-enabled biocidal paint

Vrishali Subramanian, Elena Semenzin, Alex Zabeo, Peter Saling, Tom Ligthart, Toon van Harmelen, Ineke Malsch, Danail Hristozov, Antonio Marcomini

WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT

Dynamic environmental efficiency assessment for wastewater treatment plants

Yago Lorenzo-Toja, Ian Vázquez-Rowe, Desirée Marín-Navarro, Rosa M. Crujeiras, María Teresa Moreira, Gumersindo Feijoo

Open Access WATER USE IN LCA

The WULCA consensus characterization model for water scarcity footprints: assessing impacts of water consumption based on available water remaining (AWARE)

Anne-Marie Boulay, Jane Bare, Lorenzo Benini, Markus Berger, Michael J. Lathuillière, Alessandro Manzardo, Manuele Margni, Masaharu Motoshita, Montserrat Núñez, Amandine Valerie Pastor, Bradley Ridoutt, Taikan Oki, Sebastien Worbe, Stephan Pfister

CONFERENCE REPORT: 66TH DISCUSSION FORUM ON LCA

LCA of mobility solutions: approaches and findings—66th LCA forum, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 30 August, 2017

Rolf Frischknecht, Christian Bauer, Andreas Froemelt, Stefanie Hellweg, Kirsten Biemann, Thomas Buetler, Brian Cox, Peter de Haan, Sebastian Hoerl, René Itten, Niels Jungbluth, Yorick Ligen, Nicole A. Mathys, Samuel Schiess, Salome Schori, Patricia van Loon, Jing Wang, Sarah Wettstein