A Critique of Life Cycle Assessment; Where Are the People?

摘要: Abstract In this article, we provide a framework and examples to illustrate how human behavior can disrupt the expected environmental outcomes suggested by Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The biggest problems are when LCA results scaled up make claims about possible future within narrowly crafted scenario that ignores real behavior. There however, many at smaller scales too, where (often) engineers using appear ignore of other involved in development scenario. We argue for inclusion more social science LCA, use wider array scenarios (grounded behaviors) portray product or service large scale. Ultimately people, not products, need be center discussion.