Matthias Finkbeiner 
Towards Life Cycle Sustainability Management [PDF ebook] 

PART I: LCSM Approaches

1. Integrating Sustainability Considerations into Product Development: A Practical Tool For Prioritising Social Sustainability Indicators and Experiences From Real Case Application

2. A Life Cycle Stakeholder Management Framework For Enhanced Collaboration Between Stakeholders with Competing Interests

3. Stakeholder Consultation: What Do Decision Makers in Public Policy and Industry Want To Know Regarding Abiotic Resource Use?

4. Life Cycle Management Capability: An Alternative Approach To Sustainability Assessment

5. The Sustainability Consortium: A Stakeholder Approach To Improve Consumer Product Sustainability

6. A Social Hotspot Database For Acquiring Greater Visibility in Product Supply Chains: Overview and Application To Orange Juice

PART II: LCM Methods and Tools

7. A Novel Weighting Method in LCIA and Its Application in Chinese Policy Context

8. The Usefulness of an Actor’s Perspective in LCA

9. Review on Land Use Considerations in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Methodological Perspectives For Marine Ecosystems

10. Visual Accounting

11. International Reference Life Cycle Data System(ILCD) Handbook: Review Schemes For Life Cycle Assessment

12. Time and Life Cycle Assessment: How To Take Time Into Account in the Inventory Step?

13. A Method of Prospective Technological Assessment of Nanotechnological Techniques

14. State of the Art Study – How Is Environmental Performance Measured For Buildings/Construction?

PART III: Water Footprinting

15. Comparison of Water Footprint For Industrial Products In Japan, China and USA

16. Assessment of the Water Footprint of Wheat in México

17. Water Footprints in Four Selected Breweries in Nigeria

18. Development and Application of a Water Footprint Metric For Agricultural Products and the Food Industry

19. LCA Characterisation of Freshwater Use on Human Health and Through Compensation

PART IV: LCM Of Processes and Organisations

20. How To Measure and Manage the Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Impact of a Global Multinational Company

21. Best Practice Application of LCM By Retailers To Improve Product Supply Chain Sustainability

22. Life Cycle Management Approach To the Design of Large-Scale Resorts

23. Greening Events: Waste Reduction Through The Integration of Life Cycle Management Into Event Organisation at Esci

24. Challenges For Lcas of Complex Systems: The Case of a Large-Scale Precious Metal Refinery Plant

25. Life Cycle Inventory of Pine and Eucalyptus Cellulose Production in Chile: Effect of Process Modifications

26. Life Cycle Assessment of the Integrated Solid Waste Management System of Delhi

27. LCM of Rainwater Harvesting Systems in Emerging Neighborhoods in Colombia

PART V: LCM in the Agriculture and Food Sectors

28. Environmental Profiles of Farm Types in Switzerland Based on LCA

29. The Use of Models to Account For the Variability of Agricultural Data

30. Modular Extrapolation Approach For Crop LCA – MEXALCA: Global Warming Potential of Different Crops and Its Relationship to the Yield

31. Regional Assessment of Waste Flow Eco-Synergy in Food Production: Using Compost and Polluted Ground Water in Mediterranean Horticulture Crops

32. Assessing Management Influence on Environmental Impacts Under Uncertainty: A Case Study of Paddy Rice Production in Japan

33. Assessing Environmental Sustainability of Different Apple Supply Chains in Northern Italy

34. An Effect of CO2 Information Labeling For the Pork Produced With Feed Made From Food Residuals

PART VI: LCM In the Packaging Sector

35. Role of Packaging in LCA of Food Products

36. Packaging Legislation and Unintended Consequences: A Case Study on The Necessity of Life Cycle Management

37. Carbon Footprint of Beverage Packaging in the United Kingdom

38. Enhanced Resource Efficiency With Packaging Steel

39. Damage Assessment Model For Freshwater Consumption and a Case Study on PET Bottle Production Applied New Technology For Water Footprint Reduction.-

PART VII: LCM in the Energy Sector.-

40. Sustainability Assessment of Biomass Utilisation in East Asian Countries

41. Life Cycle Inventory of Physic Nut Biodiesel: Comparison Between the Manual and Mechanized Agricultural Production Systems Practiced in Brazil

42. Life Cycle Assessment of Biodiesel Production From Microalgae Oil: Effect of Algae Species and Cultivation System

43. Modeling the Inventory of Hydropower Plants Prioritising Social Sustainability Indicators and Experiences From Real Case Application

44. Lifecycle Carbon Dioxide Emission and Stock of Domestic Wood Resources Using Material Flow Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment

45. Analysis On Correlation Relationship Between Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emission and Life Cycle Cost of Electricity Generation System For Energy Resources

46. Development and Application of a LCA Model For Coal Conversion Products (Coal To Y)

PART VIII: LCM in The Electronics and ICT Sectors

47. European LCA Standardization of ICT: Equipment, Networks And Services

48. Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) Assessment of a Dell Optiplex 780 Desktop – Results and Recommendations

49. State of the Art in Life Cycle Assessment of Laptops and Remaining Challenges On The Component Level: The Case of Integrated Circuits

50. The Concept of Monitoring of LCM Results Based on a Refrigerator Case Study

51. Life Cycle Management of F-Gas-Free Refrigeration Technology: The Case of F-Gases Free Frozen Dessert Equipments

PART IX: LCM in the Mobility Sector

52. Assessment of the Environmental Impacts cf Electric Vehicle Concepts

53. A Consistency Analysis of LCA Based Communication and Stakeholders Needs To Improve the Dialogue On New Electric Vehicles

54. Design For Environment and Environmental Certificate at Mercedes-Benz Cars

55. Implementing Life Cycle Engineering Efficiently Into Automotive Industry Processes

Index