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      Can life-cycle assessment produce reliable policy guidelines in the building sector?

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      Environmental Research Letters
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          System boundary selection in life-cycle inventories using hybrid approaches.

          Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is a method for evaluating the environmental impacts of products holistically, including direct and supply chain impacts. The current LCA methodologies and the standards by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) impose practical difficulties for drawing system boundaries; decisions on inclusion or exclusion of processes in an analysis (the cutoff criteria) are typically not made on a scientific basis. In particular, the requirement of deciding which processes could be excluded from the inventory can be rather difficult to meet because many excluded processes have often never been assessed by the practitioner, and therefore, their negligibility cannot be guaranteed. LCA studies utilizing economic input-output analysis have shown that, in practice, excluded processes can contribute as much to the product system under study as included processes; thus, the subjective determination of the system boundary may lead to invalid results. System boundaries in LCA are discussed herein with particular attention to outlining hybrid approaches as methods for resolving the boundary selection problem in LCA. An input-output model can be used to describe at least a part of a product system, and an ISO-compatible system boundary selection procedure can be designed by applying hybrid input-output-assisted approaches. There are several hybrid input-output analysis-based LCA methods that can be implemented in practice for broadening system boundary and also for ISO compliance.
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            Energy use in the life cycle of conventional and low-energy buildings: A review article

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              Errors in Conventional and Input-Output—based Life—Cycle Inventories

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                Journal
                Environmental Research Letters
                Environ. Res. Lett.
                IOP Publishing
                1748-9326
                January 01 2017
                January 05 2017
                January 05 2017
                : 12
                : 1
                : 013001
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                10.1088/1748-9326/aa54ee
                528c3bb8-2794-4ee6-bc8d-94aaf0628d13
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