TIAN Yajun, DENG Yelin, ZHANG Yueling, et al. New direction of life cycle assessment: GIS-based life cycle assessment[J]. CIESC Journal, 2016, (6): 2195-2201.
TIAN Yajun, DENG Yelin, ZHANG Yueling, et al. New direction of life cycle assessment: GIS-based life cycle assessment[J]. CIESC Journal, 2016, (6): 2195-2201.DOI: 10.11949/j.issn.0438-1157.20151795.
The study presents an overview on the development of regionalization of life cycle assessment (LCA). The results of the paper indicate that incorporating spatial information into the process of the life cycle assessment is both necessary and feasible. The GIS (geographical information system)
on the other hand
is an important platform to serve the purpose. The paper shows that GIS can effectively align and manage the spatial data in a flexible way
and thus promote the application of regionalized LCA study. The paper proposes a framework for the design of GIS based LCA. By integration GIS and LCA
the accuracy and representativeness of LCA results can be upgraded
which lays a solid foundation for policy making process.