A survey of unresolved problems in life cycle assessment¶
Reap, J., Roman, Duncan, & Bras, B. (2008). A survey of unresolved problems in life cycle assessment. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 13(5), 374-388.
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- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- It is not free of uncertainty — LCA inputs are drawn from industry-average data, primary measurement, and literature sources of varying quality; propagated uncertainty can be substantial, and point-estimate conclusions are often presented with greater confidence than underlying data supports, a class of concerns that Reap, Roman, Duncan, and Bras (2008) survey as unresolved problems in LCA.
This sourceComprehensive survey of methodological judgment, weighting, normalization, and uncertainty problems that make LCA partly a craft rather than a deterministic procedure.
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Per the abstract, Reap et al. (2008) surveys LCA's unresolved problems and names data availability and quality as critical, but says nothing about propagated-uncertainty magnitude or overconfident point estimates.
“Data availability and quality are identified as critical problems affecting all four phases.”
- It is not free of uncertainty — LCA inputs are drawn from industry-average data, primary measurement, and literature sources of varying quality; propagated uncertainty can be substantial, and point-estimate conclusions are often presented with greater confidence than underlying data supports, a class of concerns that Reap, Roman, Duncan, and Bras (2008) survey as unresolved problems in LCA.
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