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The social footprint—a practical approach to comprehensive and consistent social LCA by Weidema, Bo P.

“…Purpose The practicality of social footprinting is currently hampered by an excessive data requirement, a lack of focus on materiality of the impacts, and a…”
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Adjusting the social footprint methodology based on findings of subjective wellbeing research by Weidema, Bo P.

“…Purpose Following some years of practical application, some weaknesses have been identified in the original 2018 version of the ‘social footprint’ methodology,…”
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Attributional or consequential Life Cycle Assessment: A matter of social responsibility by Weidema, Bo P., Pizzol, Massimo, Schmidt, Jannick, Thoma, Greg

“…Results of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) are critically dependent on the system boundaries, notably the choice of attributional or consequential modelling…”
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The ecoinvent database version 3 (part I): overview and methodology by Wernet, Gregor, Bauer, Christian, Steubing, Bernhard, Reinhard, Jürgen, Moreno-Ruiz, Emilia, Weidema, Bo

“…Purpose Good background data are an important requirement in LCA. Practitioners generally make use of LCI databases for such data, and the ecoinvent database…”
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Using the budget constraint to monetarise impact assessment results by Weidema, Bo Pedersen

“…Recent developments in Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) provide a basis for reducing the uncertainty in monetarisation of environmental impacts. The LCIA…”
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A framework for modelling indirect land use changes in Life Cycle Assessment by Schmidt, Jannick H., Weidema, Bo P., Brandão, Miguel

“…Around 9% of global CO2 emissions originate from land use changes. Often, these emissions are not appropriately addressed in Life Cycle Assessment. The link…”
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Ethylene and propylene production from steam cracking in Europe: a consequential perspective by Muñoz, Ivan, Weidema, Bo P.

“…Purpose Ethylene and propylene production is currently included in life cycle assessment (LCA) databases using an attributional life cycle inventory (LCI)…”
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Comparing Three Life Cycle Impact Assessment Methods from an Endpoint Perspective by Weidema, Bo P

“…Summary The impact assessment methods Eco‐Indicator 99 (H), Stepwise2006, and ReCiPe2008 (H) are compared with respect to the relative and absolute importance…”
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Consistency check for life cycle assessments by Weidema, Bo P.

“…Purpose This paper seeks to provide a detailed procedural description for performing a consistency check for LCA as required by the ISO 14044 standard. Methods…”
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In Search of a Consistent Solution to Allocation of Joint Production by Weidema, Bo P.

“…Summary Three consistency problems are identified that arise when partitioning a product system with joint production according to an allocation key, such as…”
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Nutrition in the life cycle assessment of foods—function or impact? by Weidema, Bo P., Stylianou, Katerina S.

“…Purpose This work provides an unambiguous conceptual framework for inclusion of nutrition in Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) of food that enables the distinction…”
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Estimation of the size of error introduced into consequential models by using attributional background datasets by Weidema, Bo P.

“…Purpose A systematic comparison is made of attributional and consequential results for the same products using the same unit process database, thus isolating…”
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computational structure of environmental life cycle costing by Moreau, Vincent, Weidema, Bo P

“…PURPOSE: Existing computational methods for life cycle costing (LCC) are few and appeared inconsistent with the very definition of LCC. This article improves…”
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Attributional and consequential LCA in the ILCD handbook by Ekvall, Tomas, Azapagic, Adisa, Finnveden, Göran, Rydberg, Tomas, Weidema, Bo P, Zamagni, Alessandra

“…PURPOSE: This discussion article aims to highlight two problematic aspects in the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook: its guidance…”
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The application of the pedigree approach to the distributions foreseen in ecoinvent v3 by Muller, Stéphanie, Lesage, Pascal, Ciroth, Andreas, Mutel, Christopher, Weidema, Bo P., Samson, Réjean

“…Purpose Data used in life cycle inventories are uncertain (Ciroth et al. Int J Life Cycle Assess 9(4):216–226, 2004 ). The ecoinvent LCI database considers…”
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Using life cycle assessment to achieve a circular economy by Peña, Claudia, Civit, Bárbara, Gallego-Schmid, Alejandro, Druckman, Angela, Pires, Armando Caldeira, Weidema, Bo, Mieras, Eric, Wang, Feng, Fava, Jim, Canals, Llorenç Milà i, Cordella, Mauro, Arbuckle, Peter, Valdivia, Sonia, Fallaha, Sophie, Motta, Wladmir

“…The current global interest in circular economy (CE) opens an opportunity to make society’s consumption and production patterns more resource efficient and…”
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Avoiding Co-Product Allocation in Life-Cycle Assessment by Weidema, Bo

“…: In a life‐cycle assessment (LCA) involving only one of several products from the same process, how are the resource consumption and the emissions associated…”
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Mineral resources in life cycle impact assessment—part I: a critical review of existing methods by Sonderegger, Thomas, Berger, Markus, Alvarenga, Rodrigo, Bach, Vanessa, Cimprich, Alexander, Dewulf, Jo, Frischknecht, Rolf, Guinée, Jeroen, Helbig, Christoph, Huppertz, Tom, Jolliet, Olivier, Motoshita, Masaharu, Northey, Stephen, Rugani, Benedetto, Schrijvers, Dieuwertje, Schulze, Rita, Sonnemann, Guido, Valero, Alicia, Weidema, Bo P., Young, Steven B.

“…Purpose The safeguard subject of the Area of Protection “natural Resources,” particularly regarding mineral resources, has long been debated. Consequently, a…”
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Methodological review and detailed guidance for the life cycle interpretation phase by Laurent, Alexis, Weidema, Bo P., Bare, Jane, Liao, Xun, Maia de Souza, Danielle, Pizzol, Massimo, Sala, Serenella, Schreiber, Hanna, Thonemann, Nils, Verones, Francesca

“…Life cycle interpretation is the fourth and last phase of life cycle assessment (LCA). Being a “pivot” phase linking all other phases and the conclusions and…”
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Carbon Footprint: A Catalyst for Life Cycle Assessment? by Weidema, Bo P, Thrane, Mikkel, Christensen, Per, Schmidt, Jannick, Løkke, Søren

“…Carbon footprint is a new buzzword that has gained tremendous popularity over the last few years -- especially in the UK. Debates on the appropriate use of…”
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