Links to Cleaner Production Tools: Life Cycle Assessment

• SimaPro LCA Software -- http://www.pre.nl/simapro/default.htm -- widely used commercial software, demo download available
• SETAC LCA Advisory Group -- http://www.setac.org/lca.html -- excellent publications and resources, available for free download 
• International  Journal of LCA -- http://www.scientificjournals.com/sj/lca/ -- online version 
• Life Cycle Assessment - http://www.cfd.rmit.edu.au/life_cycle_assessment -- from Centre for Design at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, good information and links
• LCA - A guide to approaches, experiences and information sources -- http://reports.eea.eu.int/GH-07-97-595-EN-C/en/page001.html -- (or http://reports.eea.eu.int/GH-07-97-595-EN-C/en ) This guide, together with the meta-database containing information sources, is a simple to read and practical guide for businesses and industries. The text describes the ground-rules for credible LCAs, explains the meaning of "benchmarking", looks at the issues of Management Systems and environmental strategies, as well as the impacts and outcomes of LCA, the different standards, the LCA's boundaries, the means to carry simplified LCAs.
• EcoCycle -- http://www.ec.gc.ca/ecocycle/ -- free newsletter on policy and technical issues related to product environmental life-cycle management, many resources and related links on LCA tools
• Smart Communities Network - Green Development Tools -- http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/greendev/tools.shtml -- LCA computer tools, free download
• Environmental Software -- http://www.environmental-expert.com/software/ -- download trial versions of various products; search under Management, Life Cycle Assessment
• Life Cycle Assessment Links -- http://www.life-cycle.org/ -- excellent collection of resources 
• Life Cycle Initiative -- http://www.uneptie.org/pc/sustain/lcinitiative/ -- from UNEP; practical tools for evaluating the opportunities, risks, and trade-offs associated with products and services over their entire life cycle to achieve sustainable development
   

See also 

• Cleaner Production Tools - Detailed Information
• What is Life Cycle Assessment?
        

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