ISO 14044:2006 — Environmental management — Life cycle assessment — Requirements and guidelines¶
International Organization for Standardization. (2006). ISO 14044:2006 — Environmental management — Life cycle assessment — Requirements and guidelines. ISO.
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5 citations across 5 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Mature LCA practice makes these choices explicit, documents them against the conformance requirements of ISO 14044 (2006), and submits comparative assertions to third-party critical review.
This sourceISO, Geneva. Specifies conformance requirements, allocation procedures for multi-output processes, and the third-party critical review process required for comparative assertions disclosed to the public.
- Mature LCA practice makes these choices explicit, documents them against the conformance requirements of ISO 14044 (2006), and submits comparative assertions to third-party critical review.
Mechanisms¶
- Comparative LCA Model
- Both choices swing the result, so the same two options can be made to trade places by an analyst who wants them to.
This sourceThe cited work establishes Both choices swing the result.
- Both choices swing the result, so the same two options can be made to trade places by an analyst who wants them to.
- Impact Trade-Off Heatmap
- A category in which every option is dreadful can glow reassuringly green because the cells are coloured against each other, and a different normalization basis can manufacture or dissolve a conflict at will.
This sourceWarns that normalization "can change the conclusions drawn from the LCIA phase" and that it may be desirable to use several reference systems to show the consequence (§4.4.3.2); states that weighting steps "are based on value-choices and are not scientifically based" (§4.4.3.4.2); and prohibits it for public comparisons: weighting "shall not be used in LCA studies intended to be used in comparative assertions intended to be disclosed to the public" (§4.4.5). A heatmap honours that by holding the categories apart; a single-score column quietly overrides it.
- A category in which every option is dreadful can glow reassuringly green because the cells are coloured against each other, and a different normalization basis can manufacture or dissolve a conflict at will.
- Process-Based LCA Model
- Results are only as good as the inventory data, and a tidy characterized number lends false precision to weak or generic data.
This sourceRequires life-cycle inventory data-quality characteristics to be specified and assessed because inventory-data quality conditions the credibility of LCA results.
- Results are only as good as the inventory data, and a tidy characterized number lends false precision to weak or generic data.
- Service-Output Normalization Dashboard
- Its strength is stopping the two classic misreadings at once: calling a raw total drop an efficiency win when the service simply shrank, and calling a raw total rise a failure when the service grew — with the functional unit serving as the standard normalizing device.
This sourceRequires comparative life-cycle assessments to use the same functional unit so inputs and outputs are normalized to equivalent delivered function.
- Its strength is stopping the two classic misreadings at once: calling a raw total drop an efficiency win when the service simply shrank, and calling a raw total rise a failure when the service grew — with the functional unit serving as the standard normalizing device.
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