Environmental Lifecycle Assessment -a Basis for Sustainable Product Development

The problem of Life Cycle Assessment in its totality is discussed in this chapter. After presenting various aspects of the Life Cycle Aseesment methodology, the author provides an insight of the impact assessment procedure. Later on the author discusses how the concept of LCA can be applied to a product development programme.

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