LCA: the Environmental Decision-Support Tool for Transportation : LCA in transport: what, when, who, how and why

LCA in transport: what, when, who, how and why
LCA: the Environmental Decision-Support Tool for Transportation

Author : Anne DE BORTOLI

Publication date: December 10, 2020 | Lire en français

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2. LCA in transport: what, when, who, how and why

2.1 LCA methodology

2.1.1 Definition, standards and environmental declarations

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a multi-criteria, multi-stage environmental evaluation method for a product (project, service, industrial process) whose environmental impacts are calculated on the basis of a battery of selected criteria. As its name suggests, this calculation covers the entire "life cycle", i.e. "from cradle to grave": extraction of raw materials, construction, use, maintenance and end-of-life....

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