Introducing a new section in the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment: Critical Review and Life Cycle Assessment Standards

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The Editors of the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment created a new section called “Critical Review and Life Cycle Assessment Standards”. As the subject editor for this new article type, I bring much experience as a critical reviewer, having served in the roles of review panel leader, co-panellist and individual expert. My earliest experience goes back to the Sesimbra workshop on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) code of practice (SETAC 1993). Furthermore, as member of the German expert group advising the German members of the ISO 14040ff standards, I was responsible for checking the translation (so also responsible for keeping the old German name for LCA: Ökobilanz). I published several papers on the critical review process and the “magical” critical review triangle which includes the Commissioner, Practitioner and Critical review panel (Klöpffer 2012). …