Effects Of Environmental Stressors in Life Cycle Assessment

Author: Marlia Mohd. Hanafiah
Publisher: UKM Press
ISBN: 9789672517238
Weight: 0.305 kg
Pages: 212pp
Year: 2022
Price: RM35  

Have you heard about Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)? Can you imagine by modelling the cause-effect pathway of pollutants we are able to project or predict the potential environmental impacts and human health damages. IF YOU ARE EAGER to explore LCA then, this book will offer you the understanding and motivation to embrace the environmental stewardship in our daily lives. The most interesting about LCA is the ability of this tool to evaluate and model the environmental impacts and resources associated with a product. process or service throughout its life cycle (i.a.. from raw material acquisition, via production and use phases and to disposal). Although the characterization factors to assess impacts associated with terrestrial ecosystems in the LCIA methodology are available for a wide range of stressors, evaluation on how the results for terrestrial ecosystems would be when a simple method such as ecological footprint (EF) is applied still remains unknown. For the assessment of effects on freshwater ecosystem quality, this part is still lacking in the LCA framework. While few freshwater related impacts are currently included in LCA at the level of effects on biodiversity, other relevant impacts due to thermal emissions, global warming, water use and exotic species have so far not been included in the LCIA.