Benefits and risks of emerging technologies: Integrating life cycle assessment and decision analysis to assess lumber treatment alternatives

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 11543-11550

  Tsang, Michael P ^a,c   Bates, Matthew E ^a   Madison, Marcus ^b   Linkov, Igor ^a  

^a US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^b U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); COPPER; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; LIFE CYCLE; LUMBER;

ALKALINE COPPER QUATERNARY; ALTERNATIVE SELECTIONS; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; ENVIRONMENTAL STAKEHOLDERS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); MULTI-ATTRIBUTE VALUE THEORIES; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY SELECTION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

COPPER; COPPER OXIDE; METAL ION; QUINOLINE; QUINOLINIC ACID; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; FOSSIL FUEL;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION ANALYSIS; FRAGMENTATION; HETEROGENEITY; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; ORGANIC ACID; RISK FACTOR; STAKEHOLDER; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TIMBER; TRADE-OFF;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CASE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUTROPHICATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; LITERATURE; MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET; OZONE DEPLETION; CORROSION; COST; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENT; GOVERNMENT; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; WOOD;

ALGORITHMS; CORROSION; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSIL FUELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; WOOD;

EID: 84907937829     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es501996s     Document Type: Article

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