Approach to qualify decision support maturity of new versus established impact assessment methods—demonstrated for the categories acidification and eutrophication
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- 作者：Vanessa Bach ; Matthias Finkbeiner
- 关键词：Accumulated exceedance ; Acidification ; Characterization factors ; CML ; IA ; Eutrophication ; Life cycle impact assessment ; ReCiPe
- 刊名：The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：March 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：22
- 期：3
- 页码：387-397
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- 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
- 刊物主题：Environment, general; Environmental Economics; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology; Environmental Chemistry;
- 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- ISSN：1614-7502
- 卷排序：22
文摘
PurposeInitiatives like the EU Product Environmental Footprint have been pushing the discussion about the choice of life cycle impact assessment methods. Practitioners often prefer to use established methods for performance tracking, result stability, and consistency reasons. Method developers rather support newly developed methods. As case studies must provide consistent results in order to ensure reliable decision-making support, a systematic approach to qualify decision support maturity of newly developed impact assessment methods is needed.