解説
LCAに関する国際的議論の動向
2005 年 1 巻 1 号 p. 4-9
詳細
2005 年 1 巻 1 号 p. 4-9
The tremendous numbers of the results of LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) studies have been reported recently in the environmental reports of the private companies, and the type III label called as “Eco-Leaf” has been implemented since 2002 in Japan. These are evidences that LCA are used nowadays as a practical tool in the companies for the evaluation of the environmental impacts and improvement of the industrial products. Besides, as the case studies using LCA to evaluate agriculture products and social infrastructure such as energy systems as well as industrial products have been reported in the scientific journals and the new approaches regarding Life Cycle Management based on Life Cycle Thinking such as Life Cycle Costing have been developed recently, the concepts and tools related to LCA seem to be successful enough to support the environmental activities of many stakeholders toward the sustainable society. However, in the same time, it can be thought that the direction of the researches and studies on LCA spread too diffusely not to be able to see the future tasks. In this report, the trend of the discussions and studies related to LCA in the international networks are overviewed from the author’s experiences. It might be useful to catch the future movement of LCA internationally.
