LCA of Food and Agriculture
This chapter deals with the application of Life Cycle Assessment to evaluate the environmental sustainability of agriculture and food processing. The life cycle of a food product is split into six stages: production and transportation of inputs to the far
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Life Cycle Assessment Theory and Practice
Life Cycle Assessment
Michael Z. Hauschild Ralph K. Rosenbaum Stig Irving Olsen •
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Life Cycle Assessment Theory and Practice
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Editors Michael Z. Hauschild Department of Management Engineering Technical University of Denmark Kongens Lyngby Denmark
Stig Irving Olsen Department of Management Engineering Technical University of Denmark Kongens Lyngby Denmark
Ralph K. Rosenbaum IRSTEA, UMR ITAP, ELSA Research group and ELSA-PACT Environmental and Social Sustainability Assessment Montpellier France
ISBN 978-3-319-56474-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56475-3
ISBN 978-3-319-56475-3
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Preface
It is an old observation that ‘What gets measured gets managed’, and that what is not measured or measurable runs the risk of being neglected. It is therefore important that we have tools for assessing the sustainability of our choices when we develop the technologies and systems that shall help us determine and meet the needs of the present generations in a way that does not compromise the ability of our descendants to meet their needs in the future. As you will learn from this book, we must take a life cycle perspective when we want to assess the sustainability of the solutions that lie in front of us. You will be presented with many examples of problem shifting where solutions that improve or solve a targeted problem unintentionally create other problems of environmental, economic or social nature somewhere else in the systems of processes and stakeholders affe
