Glossary
LCA: the Environmental Decision-Support Tool for Transportation

The following definitions are given by the author, or taken with or without modification from Jolliet et al. or from the standard. NF EN ISO 14050.

ACV; LCA

A multi-criteria, multi-stage environmental assessment methodology used to calculate the environmental impact of a product, project, service or process, based on a battery of selected criteria. As the name suggests, this calculation covers the entire "life cycle", i.e. "from cradle to grave": extraction of raw materials, construction,...