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This essay serves as a preface to the contributions from young LCA researchers that participated in the 13th Ökobilanzwerkstatt (“LCA workshop”) at Braunschweig’s Technical University. It explains the basic idea of LCA and briefly explores some of the most important future developments and related research demands.
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Viere, T. (2019). State of the Art and Future Developments in LCA. In: Schebek, L., Herrmann, C., Cerdas, F. (eds) Progress in Life Cycle Assessment. Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92237-9_1
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