1) LCA Compendium- The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment released
The first volume of a major new book series: LCA Compendium -The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment, edited by Walter Klöpffer, and Mary Ann Curran, has been released and is now available at www.springer.com.
This volume, entitled "Background and Future Prospects in Life Cycle Assessment" offers experts’ perspectives on state-of-the-art LCA practice, including both strengths and limitations, introduces LCA in a comprehensive manner, illuminating all aspects of LCA practice and application in detail and provides historical information and references on the fundamentals of LCA practice and future development.
The LCA Compendium Book Series will discuss the main drivers in LCA (SETAC, UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, etc.), the strengths and limitations of LCA, the LCA phases as defined by ISO standards, specific applications of LCA, Life Cycle Management (LCM) and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). Further volumes, which are closely related to these themes will cover exemplary LCA studies ordered according to the importance of the fields of application. They will also present new insights and new developments and will keep the whole work current. The aim of the series is to provide a well-structured treatise of the field of LCA to give orientation and guidance through detailed descriptions on all steps necessary to conduct an LCA study according to the state of the art and in full agreement with the standards.
