title: Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services
author:  Chris T. Hendrickson 
description: '[This book] is sure to find its place on the shelf of both specialists and generalists interested in knowing more about the potential for life cycle analysis - and its variant EIO-LCA - to advance the rationalization of decisionmaking in the sustainable development context.' Inside Green Business
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  G. VENKATESH
  ENVIRONMENTAL
  LIFE-CYCLE ANALYSIS
  A PRIMER
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  Environmental Life-Cycle Analysis: A primer
  2nd edition
  © 2017 G. Venkatesh & bookboon.com
  ISBN 978-87-403-2416-7
  Peer review by Prof Dr Arun Kansal, Professor, The Energy Research Institute, New Delhi, India
  Dr Geoffrey Guest, Research Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa (Canada).
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  ENVIRONMENTAL LIFE-CYCLE 
  ANALYSIS: A PRIMER
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  Contents
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  CONTENTS
   
  Foreword 
  7
   
  Preface and Acknowledgements 
  9
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  Introduction 
  10
  1.1 
  Philosophical and functional goals 
  11
  1.2 
  The journey 
  13
  1.3 
  Not α to ω, just ABC 
  14
  2 
   Systems and life-cycle thinking 
  15
  2.1 
  Systems 
  16
  2.2 
  Life-cycle thinking and lifetimes 
  20
  3 
   Environmental life-cycle analysis – de rigeur procedure? 
  24
  3.1 
  Goal and scope 
  26
  3.2 
  Inventory analysis (LCI) 
  29
  3.3 
  Impact assessment (LCIA) 
  31
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