TY - BOOK AU - Horne,Ralph AU - Grant,Tim AU - Verghese,Karli TI - Life cycle assessment: principles, practice, and prospects SN - 9780643094529 (pbk.) U1 - 333.714 23 PY - 2009/// CY - Collingwood, Vic. PB - CSIRO Pub. KW - Environmental impact analysis KW - Australia KW - Life cycle costing KW - Methodology N1 - TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction xi Chapter1. Life Cycle Assessment: Origins, Principles and Context 1 Chapter2. The Development of Life Cycle assessment Methods and Applications 9 Chapter3. Life Cycle Assessment in Practice 23 Chapter4. Life cycle Assessment as Decision Support: a systemic Critique 33 Chapter5. The Australian Environment: Impact Assessment in a Sunburnt Country 43 Chapter6. Life cycle Assessment and Waste Management 51 Chapter7. Life Cycle Assessment: applications in the Built Environment 75 Chapter8. Will the well Run Dry? Development in Water Resource Planning and Impact Assessment 93 Chapter9. Life Cycle Assessment and Agriculture: Changes and Practices 107 Chapter10. Climate Change Responses: Carbon Offsets, Biofuels and the Life Cycle Assessment Contribution 125 Chapter11. Accelerating Life Cycle Assessment Uptake: Life Cycle Management and ‘Quick’ LCA Tools 141 Chapter12. Prospects for Life Cycle Assessment Development and Practice in the Quest for Sustainable Consumption 161 Index 173 Includes bibliographical references and index ER -