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Zumsteg, Jennifer M.; Cooper, Joyce; Noon, Michael

doi:10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00476.x

Cited by 91 publications

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“…Instead, the authors acknowledge that each LCA study is uniquely specified by its own methodological choices. This inherent property of system studies leads to significant challenges for easy but relevant comparison of quantitative results across studies and harmonization of numerical results (Brandão et al 2012;Farrell et al 2006;Zumsteg et al 2012).…”

Section: Review Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Environmental impacts of hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric vehicles—what can we learn from life cycle assessment?

Lundmark

Messagie

Tillman

et al. 2014

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose The purpose of this review article is to investigate the usefulness of different types of life cycle assessment (LCA) studies of electrified vehicles to provide robust and relevant stakeholder information. It presents synthesized conclusions based on 79 papers. Another objective is to search for explanations to divergence and "complexity" of results found by other overviewing papers in the research field, and to compile methodological learnings. The hypothesis was that such divergence could be explained by differences in goal and scope definitions of the reviewed LCA studies. Methods The review has set special attention to the goal and scope formulation of all included studies. First, completeness and clarity have been assessed in view of the ISO standard's (ISO 2006a, b) recommendation for goal definition.Secondly, studies have been categorized based on technical and methodological scope, and searched for coherent conclusions.Results and discussion Comprehensive goal formulation according to the ISO standard (ISO 2006a, b) is absent in most reviewed studies. Few give any account of the time scope, indicating the temporal validity of results and conclusions. Furthermore, most studies focus on today's electric vehicle technology, which is under strong development. Consequently, there is a lack of future time perspective, e.g., to advances in material processing, manufacturing of parts, and changes in electricity production. Nevertheless, robust assessment conclusions may still be identified. Most obvious is that electricity production is the main cause of environmental impact for externally chargeable vehicles. If, and only if, the charging electricity has very low emissions of fossil carbon, electric vehicles can reach their full potential in mitigating global warming. Consequently, it is surprising that almost no studies make this stipulation a main conclusion and try to convey it as a clear message to relevant stakeholders. Also, obtaining resources can be observed as a key area for future research. In mining, leakage of toxic substances from mine tailings has been highlighted. Efficient recycling, which is often assumed in LCA studies of electrified vehicles, may reduce demand for virgin resources and production energy. However, its realization remains a future challenge. Conclusions LCA studies with clearly stated purposes and time scope are key to stakeholder lessons and guidance. It is also necessary for quality assurance. LCA practitioners studying hybrid and electric vehicles are strongly recommended to provide comprehensive and clear goal and scope formulation in line with the ISO standard (ISO 2006a, b). Responsible editor: Hans-Joerg AlthausElectronic supplementary material The online version of this article

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Section: Review Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A structured evaluation of literature has been conducted and a search for consensus among studies. Reviews may utilize a large range of methods to synthesize conclusions from the best available evidence (Zumsteg et al 2012), including various forms of meta-analysis, quantitative and qualitative, grouping, and statistical summaries.…”

Section: Review Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental impacts of hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric vehicles—what can we learn from life cycle assessment?

Lundmark

Messagie

Tillman

et al. 2014

Int J Life Cycle Assess

411

236

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“…[16,31]) to identify what sustainability indicators are included in scientifically published life cycle studies. This included LCSAs, but also LCAs, SLCAs, and LCCs.…”

Section: Inventory Of Existing Life Cycle Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life Cycle Sustainability Evaluations of Bio-based Value Chains: Reviewing the Indicators from a Swedish Perspective

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Abstract:Policymakers worldwide are promoting the use of bio-based products as part of sustainable development. Nonetheless, there are concerns that the bio-based economy may undermine the sustainability of the transition, e.g., from the overexploitation of biomass resources and indirect impacts of land use. Adequate assessment methods with a broad systems perspective are thus required in order to ensure a transition to a sustainable, bio-based economy. We review the scientifically published life cycle studies of bio-based products in order to investigate the extent to which they include important sustainability indicators. To define which indicators are important, we refer to established frameworks for sustainability assessment, and include an Open Space workshop with academics and industrial experts. The results suggest that there is a discrepancy between the indicators that we found to be important, and the indicators that are frequently included in the studies. This indicates a need for the development and dissemination of improved methods in order to model several important environmental impacts, such as: water depletion, indirect land use change, and impacts on ecosystem quality and biological diversity. The small number of published social life cycle assessments (SLCAs) and life cycle sustainability assessments (LCSAs) indicate that these are still immature tools; as such, there is a need for improved methods and more case studies.

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“…The first steps of NativeLCA are mainly based on metaanalyses works (Zumsteg et al 2012;Whitaker et al 2012;Padey et al 2012;Zamagni et al 2012). The general idea is to collect existing LCA datasets for a targeted construction product, to describe the assumptions of the LCA and to report the impact values for the sample of data.…”

Section: Nativelca Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

NativeLCA - a systematic approach for the selection of environmental datasets as generic data: application to construction products in a national context

Silvestre

Lasvaux

Hodková

et al. 2015

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose The aim of this paper is to propose guidelines for the selection of an accurate life cycle assessment (LCA) dataset of building products to be used as generic data for a national context. Methods The guidelines are structured within a methodology, called NativeLCA. First, a review of available datasets for construction products is presented such as generic LCA and Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) databases for both national (e.g. France, Germany, Spain etc.) and European context. Secondly, a method is proposed to choose appropriate generic datasets by means of a hybrid methodology. A metaanalysis is conducted in the first step on the sample of collected datasets from the literature. When relevant, productspecific data (EPD of the different producers) are averaged to represent an average data or existing generic data are adapted to be more suitable for the context. Then, a data quality assessment enables to rank the different datasets according to the goal and scope of the study. Results and discussion This study provides consistent guidelines that can be used by building LCA practitioners to select relevant datasets depending on their goal and scope. A full case study for stone wool boards illustrates and demonstrates the applicability and usefulness of the proposed methodology, namely in the selection of a coherent dataset as generic data for a national context. This work highlights the issues in terms of choice and adaptation of existing data for a national context. Industry data cannot be adapted due to confidentiality issues unlike unit process generic data. The use of data quality indicators then helps to select the relevant generic data for each context according to user needs. Conclusions While further efforts are needed to develop regional and sector-specific LCA databases adapted for each national context, the proposed guidelines showed that the current use or adaptation of existing data, if consistently done, can lead practitioners to increase the reliability of building LCA studies according to their goal and scope definition.

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Systematic Review Checklist

Cited by 91 publications

References 58 publications

Environmental impacts of hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric vehicles—what can we learn from life cycle assessment?

Environmental impacts of hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric vehicles—what can we learn from life cycle assessment?

Life Cycle Sustainability Evaluations of Bio-based Value Chains: Reviewing the Indicators from a Swedish Perspective

NativeLCA - a systematic approach for the selection of environmental datasets as generic data: application to construction products in a national context

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