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SUMMARY:Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment: assessing the impact
 s of water use
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Stefanie Hellweg\, IFU-ETHZ\nLife Cycle Assessment (LCA) is
  increasingly used in practice to identify and improve key environmental p
 rocesses in the life cycle of industrial processes\, products or even cons
 umption patterns. In the presentation the strengths and weaknesses of LCA 
 will be discussed and new methodological developments and applications wil
 l be presented. New methods for life cycle impact assessment will be prese
 nted\, in particular with regard to the assessment of the environmental da
 mages from freshwater use. For water use\, a regionalized approach is nece
 ssary\, since the impacts vary greatly as a function of location. The meth
 od is applied to the case studies of worldwide agricultural production as 
 well as electricity production in the United States. The results show that
 \, depending on the location\, water use can be relevant or even dominate 
 the environmental damages. Therefore\, the consideration of water consumpt
 ion is crucial in Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies that include water-i
 ntensive products\, such as agricultural goods. The presented method is us
 eful for environmental decision-support in the production of water-intensi
 ve products as well as for environmentally responsible value-chain managem
 ent.
LOCATION:GR A3 31 http://plan.epfl.ch/?room=GR%20A3%2031
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