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Life Cycle Assessment and Judgement [PDF]
NanoEthics, 2020 AbstractIt has become a standard for researchers carrying out biotechnology projects to do a life cycle assessment (LCA). This is a process for assessing the environmental impact of a technology, product or policy. Doing so is no simple matter, and in the last decades, a rich set of methodologies has developed around LCA.
Christopher Nathan, Stuart Coles
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Life Cycle Assessment in Orthopedics
Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics, 2022 Covid-19 has led to an increase in the use of PPE, gowns, masks, sanitizers, air circulators, and much more, all contributing to an increase in medical waste. Waste generation is one issue. Emissions are another. The two are linked because waste and emissions are both indicators of consumption.
Pollice, Bella +2 more
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Gearbox Life Cycle Assessment [PDF]
, 2020 Sustainable production has been attracting more and more attention nowadays. Gearbox is a widely applied mechanical engineering product. However, little work of life cycle assessment (LCA) aimed at the gearbox could be found in the literature. This paper presents a LCA of gearbox to fill in the gap.
Su, D, Ren, Z
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Life cycle assessment of composites and aluminium use in aircraft systems [PDF]
, 2013 As a consequence of the gradually expanding aviation network, civil aircrafts are occupying an increasingly high proportion of the transport industry.
Liu, Ziqian
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Life cycle assessment of German energy scenarios
, 2022 S.165-175The transition of the German energy system is in full swing. Although the targets for the so-called ""Energiewende"" are set by the German Federal Government, different development paths are drawn by studies on energy scenarios.
Maga, Daniel, Thonemann, Nils
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Social Life Cycle Assessment [PDF]
, 2020 In this chapter, after a brief literature review, the social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) technology is introduced, including fundamental terminologies, steps for Implementing an S-LCA, and seven major assessment methods. A case study is presented to illustrate how the procedure and relevant assessment methods are applied in the S-LCA of a company ...
Wu, Y, Su, D
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Digital transformation - life cycle assessment of digital services, multifunctional devices and cloud computing [PDF]
, 2020 The substitution of material-based services with digital services - for example films or music - alters the environmental impact of our everyday activities and shifts visible material use to less visible digital services. A holistic Life Cycle Assessment
Preist, Chris +11 more
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Life-cycle assessment of buildings: a Review [PDF]
, 2009 Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) is one of various management tools for evaluating environmental concerns. This paper reviews LCA from a buildings perspective.
Menzies, Gillian Frances +5 more
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Multi-dimensional damage assessment (MDDA): A case study of El Niño flood disasters in Peru
Climate Risk Management, 2021 Assessing disaster impacts is the pathway to attain informed decision making to mitigate damages. Currently, these impacts are generally analyzed excluding the environmental consequences of disasters. Thus, this study proposes a novel quantitative method,
Eduardo Parodi +2 more
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Life-cycle impact assessment methods for physical energy scarcity: considerations and suggestions [PDF]
, 2021 Purpose: Most approaches for energy use assessment in life cycle assessment do not consider the scarcity of energy resources. A few approaches consider the scarcity of fossil energy resources only. No approach considers the scarcity of both renewable and
Svanström, Magdalena, +7 more
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