Reinout Heijungs - The Computational Structure of Life Cycle Assessment
In 2002, I published the book The Computational Structure of Life Cycle Assessment, written with Sangwon Suh, at Kluwer Academic Publishers.
The book is now available from Springer, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-015-9900-9. It is also available at Amazon, Bol, and other places.
Full reference
R. Heijungs & S. Suh. The computational structure of life cycle assessment. Kluwer Academic Publishers (ISBN 1-4020-0672-1), Dordrecht, 2002, xii+241 pp.
Short description (from the back cover)
Life Cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool for environmental decision-support in relation to products from the cradle to the grave. Until now, more emphasis has been put on the inclusion quantitative models and databases and on the design of guidebooks for applying LCA than on the integrative aspect of combining these models and data. This is a remarkable thing, since LCA in practice deals with thousands of quantitative data items that have to be combined in the correct manner. For this, one needs mathematical rules and algorithmic principles for carrying out an LCA.
This book presents the first coherent treatment of the mathematical and algorithmic aspects of LCA. These computational aspects are presented in matrix form, so that a concise and elegant formulation is achieved. This form, moreover, provides a platform for further extension of analysis using perturbation theory, structural theory and economic input-output analysis.
Downloads
Click here for the table of contents and a sample chapter.
A small pdf with a few errata is here.
The Matlab files can be downloaded here.
Reviews and citations
A review by Joyce Cooper has been published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology 7 (2003), 131-132, DOI 10.1162/108819803322564424.
Mid 2022, Google Scholar reports more than 900 citations.
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