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Life cycle assessment principles, practice and prospects
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- Summary
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Focuses on the important practice of LCA in Australia, and provides critical insight into the technique and how it can be used as a problem-solving tool.
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- Creator
- Ralph Horne, Tim Grant, Karli Verghese
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., c2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (188 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781613443354, 9780643094529, 1613443358, 0643099204, 1283155419, 0643094520, 0643097961, 9786613155412
- OCLC
- ocn271864897, ocn761094392
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Life cycle assessment: origins, principlesand context; Chapter 2 The development of life cycle assessmentmethods and applications; Chapter 3 Life cycle assessment in practice; Chapter 4 Life cycle assessment as decision support:a systemic critique; Chapter 5 The Australian environment: impactassessment in a sunburnt country; Chapter 6 Life cycle assessment and waste management; Chapter 7 Life cycle assessment: applications in thebuilt environment
- Chapter 8 Will the well run dry? Developments in water resourceplanning and impact assessmentChapter 9 Life cycle assessment and agriculture: challengesand prospects; Chapter 10 Climate change responses: carbon offsets,biofuels and the life cycle assessmentcontribution; Chapter 11 Accelerating life cycle assessment uptake:life cycle management and 'quick' LCA tools; Chapter 12 Prospects for life cycle assessmentdevelopment and practice in the questfor sustainable consumption; Index