Life-Cycle Assessment Documents and Guidance

• Framework for Responsible Environmental Decision-Making Using LCA
  2000 report prepared by the EPA Office of Research and Development
• Life-Cycle Case Study Comparison of Permeable Reactive Barrier versus Pump-and-Treat Remediation
  November 2009 Environmental Science and Technology article by Monica R. Higgins and Terese M. Olson
• Life Cycle Assessment of Active and Passive Groundwater Remediation Technologies
  February 2006 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology article by Peter Bayer and Michael Finkel
• Small Scale In-Situ Bioremediation of Diesel Contaminated Soil – Screening LCA of Environmental Performance
  November 2010 article by Joseph Akambih Tajam et al. in International Conference on Natural Sciences and Technologies for Waste and Wastewater Treatment, Remediation, Emissions Related to Climate, Environmental and Economic Effects
• Guidelines for Social Life-Cycle Assessment of Products
  Framework and best-practices for assessing the social and socio-economic impacts of product life cycles
• The Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and Other Environmental Impacts
  2003 Journal of Industrial Ecology article describing the EPA's TRACI computer program for LCA
• Developing a Consistent Decision-Making Framework by Using the US EPA's TRACI
  2002 AICHE paper by Jane C. Bare
• Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) software tool
  Developed by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), BEES measures the environmental performance of building products by using LCA approach specified in ISO 14040
• European Commission, Joint Research Centre - Life Cycle Thinking
  Information hub on life-cycle thinking-based data, tools, and services
• Life Cycle Assessment Tools to Measure Environmental Impacts: Assessing Their Applicability to the Home Building Industry
  2001 HUD-commissed report prepared by NAHB Research Center presenting a critique of and recommendations for LCAs
• Mastering carbon management: Balancing trade-offs to optimize supply chain efficiencies
  2008 IBM report discusses optimizing products, processes, information, and cash flow with respect to four main factors: cost, service, quality, and carbon emissions