Rijn, Maik van (2022) Research on presenting life cycle assessment results concisely to a non-technical audience. Integration Project, Industrial Engineering and Management.
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Abstract
Life cycle assessments (LCA) have become increasingly applied, in a progressive trend to map environmental impact of processes. However, issues in communication of LCA results are experienced as a result of divergent methodological approaches, making interpretation of results complex for a non-technical LCA audience (Gradin, 2020) (Sala and Andreasson, 2018). Difficulties in presenting such results in a concise manner are experienced by Ecoras, an environmental sustainability consultancy company and stakeholder of the project. Therefore, a combination of literature research and reviews on LCA documents is done in this paper, in order to evaluate the content, structure and visualisation of LCA summaries. What was found in the research, is that the main issue in misunderstanding LCA results is not the presentation of the final impact. Rather, it is not being able to understand why the results are as they are. To tackle this problem, the recipients should be taken through the process of the LCA, being provided with sufficiently enough context. In summaries this is often attempted, but the logic is not always followed. Therefore, this paper suggests presenting the relevant LCA methodological background in a structure, similar to that of the execution of the LCA in its respective phases, while making proper use of the system boundary diagram and result visualisation.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Integration Project) |
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| Supervisor name: | Kousemaker, T.M. and Ree, C.M. and Vos, J.A.W.M. |
| Degree programme: | Industrial Engineering and Management |
| Thesis type: | Integration Project |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2022 11:35 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Mar 2022 14:03 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/26582 |
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