The computational structure of life cycle assessment

By Reinout Heijungs, Sang-Ho Sun. 2002

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Functions, commodities and environmental impacts in an ecological–economic model (2004, methodology): “…develop slightly different computational structures from that of IOA (see e.g. Projektgemeinschaft Lebenswegbilanzen, 1991; Heijungs, 1994; Heijungs and Suh, 2002).3 Those unique features indeed make it difficult for an LCA to be directly integrated with IOA in current form (see Section…”
A consistent input–output formulation of shared producer and consumer responsibility (2005, background): “8Instead of using one row and one column, a company can also be represented as an entire subsystem of intra-company processes (see Farag, 1967; Polenske, 1997; Lin and Polenske, 1998; Albino et al., 2002; Heijungs and Suh, 2002).”
Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment. (2009, methodology): “Suh (2004) integrated the matrix approaches of LCI (see, e.g., Heijungs, 1994; Heijungs and Suh, 2002) and IOA in a consistent computational framework forming the integrated hybrid approach (see Suh, 2006; Peters and Hertwich, 2006; Kondo and Nakamura, 2004).”
Exploring the Current Challenges and Opportunities of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (2019, background): “A functional unit is a powerful reference to reflect the actual environmental performance of a product system [83].”
Economic allocation: Examples and derived decision tree (2004, background): “Instead, the mutual and circular dependency calls for the solution of a set of simultaneous equations, for instance by means of matrix algebra; see Heijungs and Suh (2002) for more details.”
The Environmental Relevance of Capital Goods in Life Cycle Assessments of Products and Services (2007, methodology): “The ecoinvent database system relies on a matrix calculation approach (Frischknecht & Kolm 1995, Heijungs et al. 1992b, p. 52ff., Heijungs & Suh 2002).”
Unraveling the hidden environmental impacts of AI solutions for environment (2021, background): “" The LCA theoretical approach exposed in [16] describes the system of interest as a collection of building blocks called unit processes, for example "Use phase of the server" on which the model is trained.”
AGGREGATION VERSUS DISAGGREGATION IN INPUT–OUTPUT ANALYSIS OF THE ENVIRONMENT (2011, positive): “Today, life-cycle assessment and industrial ecology both make extensive use of input–output techniques (Duchin 1992; Heijungs and Suh 2002).”
Eco-efficiency guiding micro-level actions towards sustainability: Ten basic steps for analysis☆ (2009, background): “Mathematically, this can be done elegantly, if both levels are defined in terms of linear equations (Heijungs 2001; Heijungs & Suh 2002).”
Theoretical exploration for the combination of the ecological, energy, carbon, and water footprints: Overview of a footprint family (2014, background): “…perspective of the MRIO models make it easy to operationalize the footprint family concept without distracting from the issue of responsibility allocation which is too complicated to be thoroughly settled (Finnveden et al., 2009; Heijungs and Suh, 2002; Lenzen et al., 2007; Wiedmann, 2009a).”
Measuring telecouplings in the global land system: A review and comparative evaluation of land footprint accounting methods (2015, positive): “…and energy systems analysts for whom hybrid accounting methods combining process and IO analysis have a long tradition (Bullard et al., 1978; Heijungs and Suh, 2002), and their advantages are well recognized and investigated (Lenzen and Crawford, 2009; Suh et al., 2004; Suh and Nakamura,…”