Life Cycle Assessment: Systems Analysis for Sustainable Design and Consumption
PPT Slide
Outline
Industrial Ecology & LCA
Example: Residential Heating
“80/80 Rule”: > 80% of total burden is upstream for 80% of sectors
Message IS: Perspective
LCA: A very brief History
The First US LCA
60’s & 70’s: Energy Analyses
US EPA 1972-74
US EPA 1972-74 Findings
US EPA Follow-On LCAs
LCA Re-emerges 80’s – 90’s
LCA: How-to
LCA Defined: ISO 14040 (‘97)
Life Cycle Inventory Analysis
LCI: 2 Families of Approach
Process-based example
Process-based: Window
LCI: Second Approach
US Input/Output Data
“Sawn Oak” Example
Inputs to “Saw Mills and Planing Mills”
Life Cycle Impact Assessment
Classification & Characterization
Normalization 101
Weighting 101
Industry Application Reasons
Public Sector LCA Activities
LCA Application Example
Building Design Phases
Defining the Hybrid Houston Health Science Bldg
Assign items to construction industry standard categories
Zoom in on SFR Interior Finishes
Some uses of the results
Applications
LCA in Motion: Key Developments
The ISO 14040 Series
National, Public, Process-Level Database Projects
Life Cycle Initiative: http://www.uneptie.org/pc/sustain/lca/lcini.htm
Existing LCA Framework
Integrate consistently with – and leverage – existing LCA framework
Development influences health
GDP per capita ? Life Expectancy Globally
Within-country Effects
Life cycle health impact assessment
Summary
Email: gnorris@hsph.harvard.edu
Home Page: http://www.sylvatica.com
Other information: Copyright 2003 Gregory A. Norris, Ph.D. All rights reserved.