Life Cycle Inventory Analysis User’s Guide: Enhanced Methods and Applications for the Products of the Forest Industry

This guide serves as an indispensable companion to the SETAC and ISO standards of Life Cycle Inventory and Assessment. Directed by an International Working Group representing North America, South America and Europe, the guide was produced and executed by two worldwide renown consultants. Anyone in the forest products industry who is thinking about doing a life cycle assessment should own this guide. The guide will be especially useful to those wishing to commission, conduct, or interpret the results of LCI studies on forest products. This book covers eight specific forest products: functional unit, systems boundaries, renewable nature of the resources and final material, renewable nature of the energy consumed, solid waste management practices, carbon sequestering, allocation issues - processes, recycling and co-products, and interpretation of results. Published by the American Forest & Paper Association. 1996. 72 pages, soft cover.