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Life cycle assessment in management, product and process design, and policy decision making: A conference report
Author(s) -
Cooper Joyce,
Vigon Bruce,
Curran Mary Ann,
Franklin Bill
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
integrated environmental assessment and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.665
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1551-3793
pISSN - 1551-3777
DOI - 10.1897/ieam_2004a-006.1
Subject(s) - product (mathematics) , product lifecycle , life cycle assessment , product life cycle management , process (computing) , process management , new product development , engineering , management science , business , engineering management , operations research , computer science , marketing , economics , geometry , mathematics , production (economics) , macroeconomics , operating system
On 24 September 2003, life cycle assessment (LCA) practitioners and decision makers gathered at the InLCA/LCM Conference in Seattle, Washington, USA (see http://www.lcacenter.org/InLCA-LCM03/index.html) to discuss the role of LCA in management, product design, process development, and regulatory/policy development decisions and to compare life cycle-based methods and tools with traditional product evaluation methods and tools. This article is a summary of that meeting and was prepared by the organizers as an overview of the many different technical, regulatory policy, and decision-making policy perspectives presented to an international gathering of participants representing academia and the industrial and regulatory communities.