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Introduction: What are Unintended Consequences of Renewable Energy and How Can They be Predicted? Read chapter Read first chapter

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3. Consequential Life Cycle Environmental Impact Assessment

Author : Otto Andersen

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Abstract

This chapter describes the life cycle approach to energy chain analysis and the methodology of life cycle assessment (LCA). Consequential LCA (cLCA) is discussed in comparison with attributional LCA (aLCA). The methodological approach of environmental impact assessment (EIA) is also presented. The methods, with emphasis on cLCA, are discussed in the context of improving the knowledge of unintended consequences from various forms of renewable energy. The chapter presents a series of examples where cLCA are used to predict in advance, unanticipated impacts of different forms of renewable energy technologies throughout their life cycle, with particularly focus on the impact of biofuels production.

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The term “overall environmental impact” is determined by the “environmental scarcity method”, or UBP method, where UBP is an acronym for umweltbelasttungspunkt. The UBP method aggregates all environmental impacts to a single number, which represents the total environmental impact. This is an example of a so-called “EndPoint method” [7].
 
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Metadata
Title
Consequential Life Cycle Environmental Impact Assessment
Author
Otto Andersen
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer London
Book
Unintended Consequences of Renewable Energy

Print ISBN: 978-1-4471-5531-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4471-5532-4

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5532-4_3