A Newcomer's Guide to Life Cycle Assessment - Baselines and Boundaries
Abstract
Life cycle assessment (LCA) aims to understand the environmental impact of a product or
service (termed a functional unit) over its entire life cycle - using ‘standard methodologies’.
The concept of LCA is simple – determine all the processes and products needed to produce
the functional unit, measure the environmental impacts associated with each, and sum
these up. But the reality is more complicated - for a range of reasons, two of which will be
focused on in this paper. Gathorne-Hardy, A. (2015) A newcomer’s guide to life cycle assessment - baselines and boundaries, RGTW Working Paper Number 3, Oxford: South Asian Studies.
DOI
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