Life Cycle Assessment

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	546-0800/02
Abbreviation	LCA
Course title	Life Cycle Assessment
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator	Ing. Jana Kodymová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction – products and environment, resources exhaustion, waste generation.
2. Product life cycle – „from craddle to grave“ or „ from craddle to craddle“
3. Product impact assessment through entire life cycle (LCA) - ISO 14040, ISO 14044
4. Goal and scope definition, unit system and functional unit, system borders. Data quality requirements, sources of data, exploitation of databases. Inventory analysis.
5. LC impact assessment, categories, indicators, standardization. Interpretention of LCA
6. LCA reporting, independent report quality assessment. LCA results exploration
7. Product environmental impact mitigation based on LCA results. Relation of LCA to other product tools – ecodesign, environmental labels and declarations.
8. Ecodesign (DfE, DfS, D4S) – definition. Functional and environmental performance of product. Connection to LCA.
9. Ecodesign strategies
10.End-of-life product management
11.EU integrated product policy and its reflection in Czech legislation in force
12.Environmental labels and declarations – Czech National Programme. Green marketing, green purchasing for public sector
13.Product management as a part of EMS

Literature

ZBICINSKI I., STAVENUIR J., KOZLOWSKA B., v.d.COEVERING H.:Product Design and Life Cycle Assessment (book 3 v serii Environmental Management BUP), The Baltic University Press, 2006, ISBN 91-975526-2-3
Norms ISO 14040 and 14044
MATTHEWS, H. SCOTT, Hendrickson, Chris T., and MATTHEWS Deanna, Life Cycle Assessment: Quantitative Approaches for Decisions that Matter, 2014. Open access textbook, retrieved fromhttps://www.lcatextbook.com/
BREZET H.: Design for Sustainability, UNEP, TU Delft 2006 (http://www.d4s-de.org/manual/d4stotalmanual.pdf)

Advised literature

KLOEPFFER, W. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): A Guide to Best Practice (1st Edition) (2014) 440p
ISO/TR 14047:2012 Environmental management -- Life cycle assessment -- Illustrative examples on how to apply ISO 14044 to impact assessment situations
ISO/TR 14049:2012 Environmental management -- Life cycle assessment -- Illustrative examples on how to apply ISO 14044 to goal and scope definition and inventory analysis
CINELLI, M., COLES, S.R., JORGENSEN, A., ZAMAGNI, A., FERNANDO, C., KIRWAN, K. Workshop on life cycle sustainability assessment: The state of the art and research needs - November 26, 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark (2013) International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 18 (7), pp. 1421-1424

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