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The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
Published in: The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 9/2015

01-09-2015 | BOOK REVIEW

LCA Compendium—The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment (book series) Series editors: Walter Klöpffer and Mary Ann Curran

Life Cycle Impact Assessment Editors: Michael Z. Hauschild and Mark A. J. Huijbregts

Authors: J. Potting, G. Finnveden

Published in: The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment | Issue 9/2015

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The ‘LCA compendium—The complete world of Life Cycle Assessment’ is a book-series aiming to be a comprehensive and authoritative publication disclosing the wealth of information about life cycle assessment (LCA) published in scientific journals, reports, books and other media. The first volume in this series, i.e. ‘Backgrounds and future prospects in Life Cycle Assessment’, was published in March 2014 (Klöpffer 2014). A review of this first volume can be read in Hunkeler (2014). Recently, a second volume has been published, namely the volume ‘Life cycle impact assessment’ (Hauschild and Huijbregts 2015). A third volume, i.e. ‘Life Cycle Management’ (Sonnemann and Margni in progress), will be published later this year. This book review deals with the second volume ‘Life cycle impact assessment’. …
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Metadata
Title
LCA Compendium—The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment (book series) Series editors: Walter Klöpffer and Mary Ann Curran
Life Cycle Impact Assessment Editors: Michael Z. Hauschild and Mark A. J. Huijbregts
Authors
J. Potting
G. Finnveden
Publication date
01-09-2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment / Issue 9/2015
Print ISSN: 0948-3349
Electronic ISSN: 1614-7502
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-015-0922-7

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