Addressment of Uncertainty and Variability in Attributional Environmental Life Cycle Assessment
Abstract | 'Attributional' Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) quantitatively tracks the potential environmental impacts of international value chains, in retrospective, while ensuring that burden shifting is avoided. Despite the growing popularity of LCA as a decision-support tool, there are numerous concerns relating to uncertainty and variability in LCA that affects its reliability and credibility. It is pertinent that some part of future research in LCA be guided towards increasing reliability and credibility for decision-making, while utilizing the LCA framework established by ISO 14040. In this dissertation, I have synthesized the present state of knowledge and application of uncertainty and variability in ‘attributional’ LCA, and contri... (more) |
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Created Date | 2016 |
Contributor | Subramanian, Vairavan (Author) / Golden, Jay S (Advisor) / Chester, Mikhail V (Advisor) / Allenby, Braden R (Committee member) / Dooley, Kevin J (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher) |
Subject | Sustainability / Environmental impacts / Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) / Uncertainty / Variability |
Type | Doctoral Dissertation |
Extent | 295 pages |
Language | English |
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Reuse Permissions | All Rights Reserved |
Note | Doctoral Dissertation Sustainability 2016 |
Collaborating Institutions | Graduate College / ASU Library |
Additional Formats | MODS / OAI Dublin Core / RIS |