Environmental news No. 80 2005 – Spatial differentiation in LCA impact assessment

Spatial differentiation in LCA impact assessment

Authors' preface

The work behind this Guideline is documented in the report "Technical background for spatial differentiation in life cycle impact assessment" by José Potting and Michael Hauschild (eds., 2005). In addition to the impact categories covered by the Guideline, the Technical Report also documents the development of a framework for life cycle impact assessment of noise. It was not possible within the constraints of the current project to develop it to the level needed for this Guideline. However, a good platform has been created for the further work with this impact category. The Guideline was written by Michael Hauschild and José Potting but the work behind the recommendations has been performed by the following research teams:

Chapter 4 Acidification
José Potting (Institute of Product Development (IPU), Technical University of Denmark, now the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies IVEM, University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

Wolfgang Schöpp (IIASA, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria)

Kornelis Blok (University of Utrecht, Department of Science, Technology and Society, the Netherlands)

Michael Hauschild (Institute of Product Development (IPU), Technical University of Denmark)

Chapter 5 Terrestrial eutrophication
José Potting Wolfgang Schöpp Michael Hauschild

Chapter 6 Aquatic eutrophication
José Potting Arthur Beusen (RIVM, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands)

Henriette Øllgaard (The Danish Technological Institute) Ole Christian Hansen (The Danish Technological Institute) Bronno de Haan (RIVM, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands )

Michael Hauschild

Chapter 7 Photochemical ozone formation
Michael Hauschild Annemarie Bastrup-Birk (Danish National Environmental Research Institute)

Ole Hertel (Danish National Environmental Research Institute) Wolfgang Schöpp José Potting

Chapter 8 Human toxicity
José Potting Alfred Trukenmüller (Stuttgart University, Institute of Energy Economics and the Rational Use of Energy, Germany) Frans Møller Christensen (Danish Toxicology Center) Hans van Jaarsveld (RIVM, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands)

Stig I. Olsen (Institute of Product Development (IPU), Technical University of Denmark)

Michael Hauschild

Chapter 9 Ecotoxicity
Jens Tørsløv (DHI Water and Environment ) Michael Hauschild Dorte Rasmussen (DHI Water and Environment)

Chapter 9: Noise nuisance
Per H. Nielsen (Institute of Product Development (IPU), Technical University of Denmark)

Jens E. Laursen (FORCE Technology)