2006 Volume 2 Issue 1 Pages 42-47
Recently, LCA has been getting attention as a method for the evaluation of regional activities, and several studies have been done to consider regional characteristics in evaluation of regional activities. However, most previous studies only considered the energy use and transportation distance in the operation step of a regional activity. There hasn't been any studies that tried to specify the exhaust regions of environmental burdens for direct and indirect effects, and consider the site-specific condition of them. Specifically, we noted to what degree the result of regional evaluation is affected by site-specific consideration for the indirect effect regions because the indirect effects differs from region to region. Therefore, in this study, we verified the necessity for site-specific consideration of exhaust regions of environmental burdens and proposed a new applicative approach that can consider site-specific condition efficiently for indirect effects.
