Life Cycle Assessment from the Public Health Perspective
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 June 2018) | Viewed by 274
Special Issue Editor
Interests: life cycle impact assessment; chemical alternatives assessment; exposure science; environemntal modelling; air pollution
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Monitoring and assessing the human and environmental disease burden remains an urgent public health effort at the global level. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals ask for minimizing releases and exposures to hazardous chemicals and biological agents, the Circular Economy builds on increased resources use efficiency, and the upcoming European Non-Toxic Environment strategy calls for innovative ways to fight chemical pollution and exposure.
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a standardized method to compare the performance of products and services in terms of their potential negative impacts on humans and the environment. Chemical emissions and resources use are inventoried and translated into potential impacts. However, evaluating LCA results and linking them to actual human and environmental disease burden remains a key gap.
This Special Issue focuses on closing this gap by bringing LCA together with public and environmental health data, evaluating environmental performance results from the perspective of monitoring and public health initiatives. Papers addressing any issues relevant to LCA methods, data, and models in relation to public or environmental health are invited and especially those addressing strategies to assess and evaluate life cycle inventory or impact assessment information and results, and linking them to monitoring data and observed impacts on humans and the environment.
Assoc. Prof. Peter Fantke
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Life cycle assessment (LCA)
- Life cycle inventory analysis (LCI)
- Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA)
- Public health data
- Environmental and public health monitoring
- Biomonitoring data
- Epidemiological data
- Global disease burden
- Environmental performance results
