Streamlined Life-Cycle Assessment - Softcover

Graedel, T. E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0136074251 ISBN 13: 9780136074250

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 1998

Synopsis

This book examines the question of what makes one design environmentally preferable to another. Graedel discusses data and analyzes the streamlined life-cycle assessment process in the context of the goals of a particular process of product. Discusses environmental objectives as the basis of life cycle assessment. Impact assessment determined in the degree to which a given product or process features the natural earth system budget. Ends with a hypothetical discussion of what an environmentally perfect product might look like. For chemical, mechanical, and civil engineers.

About this title

From the Publisher

From the author of a best-selling industrial ecology text, this book examines the question of what makes one design environmentally preferable to another. Beginning with goals of a particular process of product, Graedel discusses data and analyzes th e streamlined life-cycle assessment process.

From the Back Cover

This book examines the question of what makes one design environmentally preferable to another. Graedel discusses data and analyzes the streamlined life-cycle assessment process in the context of the goals of a particular process or product.

FEATURES

• Discusses environmental objectives as the basis of life-cycle assessment.
• Focuses on streamlined LCAs, a technique common in industry today.
• Includes unique coverage of the assessment of societal infrastructures (Ch. 12).
• Ends with a hypothetical discussion of what an environmentally perfect product might look like.
• Includes useful checklists for performing SLCA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0136074251
• ISBN 13: 9780136074250
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 310