Are you designing a course on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment, or have you been teaching a course on LCSA? We're hoping to make this page a handy guide to understanding the texts and tools to help your students learn this important assessment method.
In 2019, the section conducted a simple survey of LCSA section members. Here are the results, based on 10 responses:
What types of students take your LCA/LCSA course? (Answers ranked by most freqent response)
- Sciences (Environmental Science, Biology, Forestry, etc.)
- Engineering
- Business
- Social Sciences
- Other
Commonly Used Textbooks:
- Matthews, H.S., Hendrickson, C.T. & Matthews D.H. 2015. Life Cycle Assessment: Quantitative Approaches for Decisions that Matter. http://www.lcatextbook.com
- Schenk, R.; White, P. 2014. Environmental Life Cycle Assessment
- Olivier Jolliet et al., 2015, Environmental Life Cycle Assessment
- Hauschild, Michael Z, Huijbregts, Mark A.J. (Eds.), 2015, Life Cycle Impact Assessment
- Guinea, et al. 2002.Handbook on LCA
- Heijungs and Suh. 2002. The Computational Structure of Life Cycle Assessment
- ILCD(JRC) pdfs
- Meadows, Donella. 2008. Thinking in Systems
Commonly Used Software:
- OpenLCA
- SimaPro
- Gabi
- Brightway2
- CMLCA (www.cmlca.eu)
- eFootprint