A contextual approach to environmental impact assessment

Robert Ries

International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, 2002, vol. 2, issue 1/2/3, 8-21

Abstract: This paper presents an environmental impact assessment method implemented in a computational tool for the environmental evaluation of building designs. The method is an extension of a traditional material-focused life cycle analysis (LCA), and is based on a spatial allocation for emissions and resource usage. The implementation described here uses a model of an evaluative environment, which allows for the consideration of the rate and the spatial distribution of an environmental load in the indicator calculation.

Keywords: life cycle assessment; environmental impact analysis; sustainable building design tools. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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