[en] Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) applied to the agri-food sector has been rapidly developing in the last years, however initiatives like Agribalyse® have shown the lack of consensus making on the impact assessment phase (choice of characterization methods). A review of the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment in the Agri-Food Sector (LCAFood 2012) revealed the absence of prevalence of a life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) method, where several calculation methods and variations of them are used.
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
Merchan, Angel ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie appliquée > Génie chimique - Procédés et développement durable
Combelles, Agathe; Groupe ISA, Univesité catholique de Lille > Environnement
Language :
English
Title :
Comparison of Life cycle Impact Assessment methods in a case of crop in Northern France
Publication date :
05 November 2014
Event name :
[avniR] Conference 2014, 4th international conference on Life Cycle approaches
Event organizer :
[avniR] Life cycle Assessment Platform
Event place :
Lille, France
Event date :
The 5th and the 6th of November 2014
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Proceeding of the 4th international conference on Life Cycle approaches
