Can life-cycle assessment produce reliable policy guidelines in the building sector?

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Säynäjoki, Antti ^a,b   Heinonen, Jukka ^a,c   Junnila, Seppo ^a   Horvath, Arpad ^d  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

building; construction; embodied; GHG emissions; life cycle assessment; literature review

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CONSTRUCTION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GREENHOUSE GASES;

BACKGROUND INFORMATION; EMBODIED; GHG EMISSION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LITERATURE REVIEWS; METHODOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE; SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES; SUPPORTING POLICIES;

LIFE CYCLE;

BUILDING; BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DECISION MAKING; EMISSION; GREENHOUSE GAS; GUIDELINE; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; LITERATURE REVIEW;

EID: 85011422813     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa54ee     Document Type: Review

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