title: Life cycle assessment in management, product and process design, and policy decision making: a conference report.
abstract: On 24 September 2003, life cycle assessment (LCA) practitioners and decision makers gathered at the InLCA/LCM Conference in Seattle, Washington, USA (see http://www.lcacenter.org/InLCA-LCM03/index.html) to discuss the role of LCA in management, product design, process development, and regulatory/policy development decisions and to compare life cycle-based methods and tools with traditional product evaluation methods and tools. This article is a summary of that meeting and was prepared by the organizers as an overview of the many different technical, regulatory policy, and decision-making policy perspectives presented to an international gathering of participants representing academia and the industrial and regulatory communities.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Box 352600, Seattle, Washington 98199, USA. cooperjs@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: Joyce
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vigon
authors.forename: Mary Ann
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Curran
authors.forename: Bill
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Franklin
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D004777:Environment; D008420:Manufactured Materials; D018986:Motor Vehicles; D011640:Public Policy