Lecture 5: Impact assessment

Describing the environmental consequences of the environmental loads of a technical system, the principles and methods available for doing so. Understanding this phase is important when you start interpreting the results of your project. This is necessary as background for the third project supervision meeting (PS3).

Litterature for L5:

-      Bauman and Tillman (2004) Hitch Hiker’s Guide, chapter 5

-      PRé Consultants (2008) SimaPro 7 Introduction to LCA, chapter 4 (p. 19-24)

-      Pennington et al. (2004) Life cycle assessment Part 2: Current impact assessment practice, sections 1-6, 8.

-      Bare and Gloria (2006) Critical analysis of the matematical relationships and comprehensiveness of life cycle impact assessment approaches.