A proposal for accounting for biodiversity in life cycle assessment

摘要: Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a methodology for assessing the environmental impacts associated with products throughout their lifecycle. Many are accounted within LCA framework, but to date biodiversity have received little attention. There number of existing direct and indirect measures ecological field, some which potential be developed into useable method LCA. However, our that considerable development would required implementation not likely in foreseeable future. Here an alternative approach proposed rapidly incorporating The relies on expert opinions through series questions aim encapsulate main issues relating disturbance impact framework. While technique its infancy we outline foundation identify steps develop this