A Critique of Life Cycle Assessment; Where Are the People?
In this article, we provide a framework and examples to illustrate how human behavior can disrupt the expected environmental outcomes suggested by Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The biggest problems are when LCA results are scaled up to make claims about possible future outcomes within a narrowly craf...
Main Author: | Gutowski, Timothy G |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Format: | Article |
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Elsevier BV
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119641 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7019-6887 |
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