ECOPT: An adaptable life cycle assessment model for the environmentally constrained optimization of prospective technology transitions.
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a method to evaluate the environmental impacts of technologies from cradle to grave. However, LCAs are commonly defined in terms of the consumption of a single unit of a product and thus ignore scaling issues in large‐scale deployment of technologies. Such product‐leve...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Industrial Ecology Vol. 26; no. 5; pp. 1616 - 1631 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2022
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