Search Results - "Heijungs, R."

Ignoring correlation in uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in life cycle assessment: what is the risk? by Groen, E.A., Heijungs, R.

“…Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an established tool to quantify the environmental impact of a product. A good assessment of uncertainty is important for making…”
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A Protocol for the Global Sensitivity Analysis of Impact Assessment Models in Life Cycle Assessment by Cucurachi, S., Borgonovo, E., Heijungs, R.

“…The life cycle assessment (LCA) framework has established itself as the leading tool for the assessment of the environmental impact of products. Several works…”
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Characterisation factors for life cycle impact assessment of sound emissions by Cucurachi, S., Heijungs, R.

“…Noise is a serious stressor affecting the health of millions of citizens. It has been suggested that disturbance by noise is responsible for a substantial part…”
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Effect of biogenic carbon inventory on the life cycle assessment of bioenergy: challenges to the neutrality assumption by Wiloso, E.I., Heijungs, R., Huppes, G., Fang, K.

“…Biogenic carbon is defined as carbon contained in biomass that is accumulated during plant growth. In spite of the considerable progress towards the inventory…”
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Method selection for sustainability assessments: The case of recovery of resources from waste water by Zijp, M.C., Waaijers-van der Loop, S.L., Heijungs, R., Broeren, M.L.M., Peeters, R., Van Nieuwenhuijzen, A., Shen, L., Heugens, E.H.W., Posthuma, L.

“…Sustainability assessments provide scientific support in decision procedures towards sustainable solutions. However, in order to contribute in identifying and…”
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Methods for uncertainty propagation in life cycle assessment by Groen, E.A., Heijungs, R., Bokkers, E.A.M., de Boer, I.J.M.

“…Life cycle assessment (LCA) calculates the environmental impact of a product over its entire life cycle. Uncertainty analysis is an important aspect in LCA,…”
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Sensitivity analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from a pork production chain by Groen, E.A., van Zanten, H.H.E., Heijungs, R., Bokkers, E.A.M., de Boer, I.J.M.

“…This study aimed to identify the most essential input parameters in the assessment of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions along the pork production chain. We…”
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A framework for deciding on the inclusion of emerging impacts in life cycle impact assessment by Cucurachi, S., Heijungs, R., Peijnenburg, W.J.G.M., Bolte, J.F.B., de Snoo, G.R.

“…As technology progresses, so does the concern about the potential health impacts on humans and biodiversity that go in hand with technological development…”
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Numerical approaches towards life cycle interpretation five examples by Heijungs, Reinout, Kleijn, René

“…The ISO-standard for LCA distinguishes four phases, of which the last one, the interpretation, is the least elaborated. It can be regarded as containing…”
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Hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA) does not necessarily yield more accurate results than process-based LCA by Yang, Yi, Heijungs, Reinout, Brandão, Miguel

“…Hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA), through combining input-output (IO) models and process-based LCA for a complete system boundary, is widely recognized as a…”
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Characterisation factors for life cycle impact assessment of sound emissions by CUCURACHI, S, HEIJUNGS, R

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Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment by Finnveden, Göran, Hauschild, Michael Z., Ekvall, Tomas, Guinée, Jeroen, Heijungs, Reinout, Hellweg, Stefanie, Koehler, Annette, Pennington, David, Suh, Sangwon

“…Life Cycle Assessment is a tool to assess the environmental impacts and resources used throughout a product's life cycle, i.e., from raw material acquisition,…”
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Attributional and consequential LCA of milk production by Thomassen, Marlies A., Dalgaard, Randi, Heijungs, Reinout, de Boer, Imke

“…Background, aim and scope Different ways of performing a life cycle assessment (LCA) are used to assess the environmental burden of milk production. A strong…”
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Allocation and ‘what-if’ scenarios in life cycle assessment of waste management systems by Heijungs, Reinout, Guinée, Jeroen B.

“…Many modern waste treatment processes and waste management systems are able to treat many different types of waste at the same time, and deliver a number of…”
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Towards a global multi-regional environmentally extended input–output database by Tukker, Arnold, Poliakov, Evgueni, Heijungs, Reinout, Hawkins, Troy, Neuwahl, Frederik, Rueda-Cantuche, José M., Giljum, Stefan, Moll, Stephan, Oosterhaven, Jan, Bouwmeester, Maaike

“…This paper presents the strategy for a large EU-funded Integrated Project: EXIOPOL (“A New Environmental Accounting Framework Using Externality Data and…”
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A rapid review of meta-analyses and systematic reviews of environmental footprints of food commodities and diets by Henriksson, Patrik JG, Cucurachi, Stefano, Guinée, Jeroen B., Heijungs, Reinout, Troell, Max, Ziegler, Friederike

“…Systematic reviews, sometimes including meta-analyses, are often presented as an approach for identifying healthy and sustainable diets. Here we explore to…”
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Ecodesign - Carbon Footprint - Life Cycle Assessment - Life Cycle Sustainability Analysis. A Flexible Framework for a Continuum of Tools by Heijungs, R

“…Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool for answering questions related to environmental impacts of products. It is a comprehensive tool, addressing the entire…”
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Power series expansion and structural analysis for life cycle assessment by Suh, Sangwon, Heijungs, Reinout

“…The usefulness of power series expansion for an LCA system has often been doubted, as those systems may not possess the unique properties that enable power…”
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Economic allocation: Examples and derived decision tree by Guinée, Jeroen B., Heijungs, Reinout, Huppes, Gjalt

“…Goal, Scope and BackgroundIn the recently published (Dutch) Handbook on LCA, economic allocation is advised as baseline method for most allocation situations…”
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The LCIA midpoint-damage framework of the UNEP/SETAC life cycle initiative by Jolliet, Olivier, Müller-Wenk, Ruedi, Bare, Jane, Brent, Alan, Goedkoop, Mark, Heijungs, Reinout, Itsubo, Norihiro, Peña, Claudia, Pennington, David, Potting, José, Rebitzer, Gerald, Stewart, Mary, de Haes, Helias Udo, Weidema, Bo

“…Background, Aims and ScopeLife Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) methods can be grouped into two families: classical methods determining impact category…”
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