546-0800/01 – Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 5 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Jana Kodymová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | RNDr. Alena Labodová, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | | |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2008/2009 | Year of cancellation | 2016/2017 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Product life cycle assessment, ecodesign, environmental labels and declarations, benefits for environment
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Project work
Summary
Environmental impact of products during their full life cycle, life cycle thinking, life cycle assessment, ecodesign, integrated product policy, circular economy
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
KLOEPFFER, W. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): A Guide to Best Practice (1st Edition) (2014) 440p
ISO/TR 14047:2012 Environmental management -- Life cycle assessment -- Illustrative examples on how to apply ISO 14044 to impact assessment situations
ISO/TR 14049:2012 Environmental management -- Life cycle assessment -- Illustrative examples on how to apply ISO 14044 to goal and scope definition and inventory analysis
CINELLI, M., COLES, S.R., JORGENSEN, A., ZAMAGNI, A., FERNANDO, C., KIRWAN, K. Workshop on life cycle sustainability assessment: The state of the art and research needs - November 26, 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark (2013) International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 18 (7), pp. 1421-1424
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Group project in the frame of exercise, work with LCA software
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Introduction – products and environment, resources exhaustion, waste generation.
2. Product life cycle – „from craddle to grave“ or „ from craddle to craddle“
3. Product impact assessment through entire life cycle (LCA) - ISO 14040, ISO 14044
4. goal and scope definition, unit system and functional unit, system borders. Data quality requirements, sources of data, exploitation of databases. Inventory analysis.
5. LC impact assessment, categories, indicators, standardization. Interpretention of LCA
6. LCA reporting, independent report quality assessment. LCA results exploration
7. Product environmental impact mitigation based on LCA results. Relation of LCA to other product tools – ecodesign, environmental labels and declarations.
8. Ecodesign (DfE, DfS, D4S) – definition. Functional and environmental performance of product. Connection to LCA.
9. Ecodesign strategies
10. End-of-life product management
11. EU integrated product policy and its reflection in Czech legislation in force
12. Environmental labels and declarations – Czech National Programme
13. Green marketing, green purchasing for public sector
14. Product management as a part of EMS
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