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Life Cycle Assessment in Industry and Business

Adoption Patterns, Applications and Implications

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Authors:
  1. Paolo Frankl

    1. Ambiente Italia s.r.l. and Ecobilancio s.r.l., Rome, Italy

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  2. Frieder Rubik

    1. Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Heidelberg, Germany

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  • With 20 case studies from Germany, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland (5 for each country)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Introduction

    • Paolo Frankl, Frieder Rubik
    Pages 1-7

  3. Framework and theoretical background

    • Paolo Frankl, Frieder Rubik
    Pages 9-41

  4. Application of LCA in general

    • Paolo Frankl, Frieder Rubik
    Pages 43-51

  5. A “static” perspective on LCA applications — Survey results

    • Paolo Frankl, Frieder Rubik
    Pages 53-101

  6. The dynamics of LCA adoption and integration in the firm — The results of the case-studies

    • Paolo Frankl, Frieder Rubik
    Pages 103-198

  7. The relationship between business and policy: expectations and implications

    • Paolo Frankl, Frieder Rubik
    Pages 199-217

  8. Conclusions and recommendations

    • Paolo Frankl, Frieder Rubik
    Pages 219-268

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 269-280
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1.1 Life Cycle Assessment (LeA): a fascinating and sophisticated tool The greening of the economy is not a new task, but it is a challenge for which a lot of tasks still have to be done. It is known that the main source of environ­ mental deterioration by industry is not any more the chimneys and other process­ related emissions, but the products and services produced. Products are regarded as carriers of polIution: they are not only a potential source of polIution and waste during their use; they are also a cause of resource depletion, energy consumption, and emissions du ring their life starting with the extraction of the raw materials and ending with their disposal (i.e. connecting production and consumption stages). The challenge of these decades is now the greening of products and services. The new focus on products (cp. OosterhuislRubik/ScholI 1996) was introduced as a policy approach of shared responsibility in which different actors are in­ volved along the life-cycle of a product, each having specific responsibilities.

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  • Ambiente Italia s.r.l. and Ecobilancio s.r.l., Rome, Italy

    Paolo Frankl

  • Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Heidelberg, Germany

    Frieder Rubik

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