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The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Issue 6/2020

Content (18 Articles)

BUILDING COMPONENTS AND BUILDINGS

Upcycling shipping containers as building components: an environmental impact assessment

Mattia Bertolini, Luca Guardigli

Open Access HEALTHCARE

A condom’s footprint - life cycle assessment of a natural rubber condom

Maik Birnbach, Annekatrin Lehmann, Elisa Naranjo, Matthias Finkbeiner

Interpretation of LCA Studies for Decision Support

Primary data priorities for the life cycle inventory of construction products: focus on foreground processes

Fernanda Belizario Silva, Daniel Costa Reis, Yazmin Lisbeth Mack-Vergara, Lucas Pessoto, Haibo Feng, Sérgio Almeida Pacca, Sébastien Lasvaux, Guillaume Habert, Vanderley Moacyr John

LAND USE IN LCA

Improving direct land use change calculations: an Australian case study

Paul-Antoine Bontinck, Tim F. Grant, Maartje Sevenster, Sandra Eady, Debbie Crawford

Open Access LAND USE IN LCA

Are the factors recommended by UNEP-SETAC for evaluating biodiversity in LCA achieving their promises: a case study of corrugated boxes produced in the US

Caroline Gaudreault, Craig Loehle, Stephen Prisley, Kevin A. Solarik, Jacob P. Verschuyl

LCA FOR AGRICULTURE.

Integrating regionalized Brazilian land use change datasets into the ecoinvent database: new data, premises and uncertainties have large effects in the results

Ana Cristina Guimarães Donke, Renan Milagres Lage Novaes, Ricardo Antonio Almeida Pazianotto, Emilia Moreno-Ruiz, Jürgen Reinhard, Juliana Ferreira Picoli, Marília Ieda da Silveira Folegatti-Matsuura

Open Access LCA FOR ENERGY SYSTEMS AND FOOD PRODUCTS

Large-scale regionalised LCA shows that plant-based fat spreads have a lower climate, land occupation and water scarcity impact than dairy butter

Xun Liao, Monique J. W. Gerichhausen, Xavier Bengoa, Giles Rigarlsford, Ralph H. Beverloo, Yvonne Bruggeman, Vincent Rossi

LCA FOR MACHINES

Life cycle assessment of a hot-pressing machine to manufacture particleboards: hotspots, environmental indicators, and solutions

Diogo Aparecido Lopes Silva, Alessandro Silveira Firmino, Fabiane Salles Ferro, André Luis Christoforo, Florence Rezende Leite, Francisco Antonio Rocco Lahr, Karel Kellens

LCI METHODOLOGY AND DATABASES

Exploring adoption price effects on life cycle inventory results

Shelie A. Miller, Benjamin E. Sharp, Jim F. Chamberlain, Saumya Sarkar, Shamitha Keerthi

SOCIETAL LCA

An integrated social life cycle assessment of freight transport systems

Jose Luis Osorio-Tejada, Eva Llera-Sastresa, Sabina Scarpellini, Ahmad Hariza Hashim

SOCIETAL LCA

Modeling life-cycle social assessment in sustainable pavement management at project level

Xiaoyan Zheng, Said M. Easa, Tao Ji, Zhenliang Jiang

SOCIETAL LCA

Social Organizational Life Cycle Assessment: an approach for identification of relevant subcategories for wine production in Italy

Manuela D’Eusanio, Annekatrin Lehmann, Matthias Finkbeiner, Luigia Petti

WOOD AND OTHER RENEWABLE RESOURCES

The environmental attributes of wood fiber composites with bio-based or petroleum-based plastics

Kanotha Kamau-Devers, Sabbie A. Miller

Conference Report

Sustainable built environment: transition towards a net zero carbon built environment

Alexander Passer, Thomas Lützkendorf, Guillaume Habert, Helga Kromp-Kolb, Michael Monsberger, Michael Eder, Barbara Truger

Correction

Correction to: An integrated social life cycle assessment of freight transport systems

Jose Luis Osorio-Tejada, Eva Llera-Sastresa, Sabina Scarpellini, Ahmad Hariza Hashim

Correction

Correction to: A condom’s footprint - life cycle assessment of a natural rubber condom

Maik Birnbach, Annekatrin Lehmann, Elisa Naranjo, Matthias Finkbeiner