Emerging Technologies

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Historically speaking, conventional approaches to life cycle analysis

(LCA) methodologies have been ostensibly concerned with public

health and environmental impacts from materials, consumer

products, processes or activities (of the anthropogenic kind.). The

last three decades have brought a litany of continuous developmental

improvements within the practice. This is evidenced by a growing

interest globally as well as an intensity of awareness that is leading

practitioners and researchers to apply LCA, or social life cycle analysis

(SLCA), in heretofore very unusual and creative ways. Guinée et al. in

2011 in their ...