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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): A Guide to Best Practice
Walter Klöpffer
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Description for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): A Guide to Best Practice
Hardback. This first practical guide to the topic walks readers through all the stages of a complete LCA analysis, with each step exemplified by real-life data from a major LCA project. With a special emphasis on sustainability measures, including carbon and water footprints. Num Pages: 440 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: RNH; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 176 x 25. Weight in Grams: 922.
This first hands-on guide to ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) makes this powerful tool immediately accessible to both professionals and students. Following a general introduction on the philosophy and purpose of LCA, the reader is taken through all the stages of a complete LCA analysis, with each step exemplified by real-life data from a major LCA project on beverage packaging. Measures as carbon and water footprint, based on the most recent international standards and definitions, are addressed.
Written by two pioneers of LCA, this practical volume is targeted at first-time LCA users but equally makes a much-valued ... Read more
This first hands-on guide to ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) makes this powerful tool immediately accessible to both professionals and students. Following a general introduction on the philosophy and purpose of LCA, the reader is taken through all the stages of a complete LCA analysis, with each step exemplified by real-life data from a major LCA project on beverage packaging. Measures as carbon and water footprint, based on the most recent international standards and definitions, are addressed.
Written by two pioneers of LCA, this practical volume is targeted at first-time LCA users but equally makes a much-valued ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Germany
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783527329861
SKU
V9783527329861
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About Walter Klöpffer
Walter Klopffer is consultant for life cycle and chemicals assessment in Frankfurt (Germany). After his studies of chemistry at the University of Graz (Austria) he was working for nearly thirty years at the Battelle Institute e.V. in Frankfurt, followed by a position at C.A.U. Ltd. in Dreieich (Germany). Since 1975 he has also been Professor of Physical Chemistry at the ... Read more
Reviews for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): A Guide to Best Practice
'The textbook is divided into six chapters and is both very readable, as well as comprehensive. For those who wish to teach from it, extensive and quite up-to-date references are included.' (David Hunkeler 2016)