MARY ANN CURRAN, PHD, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of life cycle assessment and management. She began working on LCA methodology in 1990 at the U.S. EPA's National Risk Management Research Laboratory in Cincinnati, Ohio. An author of numerous papers and book chapters on LCA, she has been instrumental in advancing LCA awareness worldwide and has presented her LCA-related research at technical meetings around the world. She serves on the editorial boards of multiple journals on LCA and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

• Preface xix1 Environmental Life Cycle Assessment: Background and Perspective 1Gjalt Huppes and Mary Ann CurranPart 1: Methodology and Current State of LCA Practice2 An Overview of the Life Cycle Assessment Method - Past, Present, and Future 15Reinout Heijungs and Jeroen B. Guinee3. Life Cycle Inventory Modeling in Practice 43Beverly Sauer4 Life Cycle Impact Assessment 67Manuele Margni and Mary Ann Curran5 Sourcing Life Cycle Inventory Data 105Mary Ann Curran6 Software for Life Cycle Assessment 143Andreas CtrothPart 2: LCA Applications7 Modeling the Agri-Food Industry with Life Cycle Assessment 159Bruno Notarnicola, Giuseppe Tassielli and Pietro A. RenzulliExergy Analysis and its Connection to Life Cycle Assessment 185Marc A. Rosen, Ibrahim Dincer and Ahmet OzbilenAccounting for Ecosystem Goods and Services in Life Cycle Assessment and Process Design 217Erin F. Landers, Robert A. Urban and Bhavtk R. BakshtA Case Study of the Practice of Sustainable SupplyChain Management 233Annie Wetsbrod and Larry LoftusLife Cycle Assessment and End of Life Materials Management 249Keith A. WeitzApplication of LCA in Mining and Minerals Processing – Current Programs and Noticeable Gaps 267Dr. Mary Stewart, Dr. Peter Holt and Mr. Rob RouwetteSustainable Preservative-Treated Forest Products, Their Life Cycle Environmental Impacts, and End of Life Management Opportunities: A Case Study 291Christopher A. BolinBuildings, Systems Thinking, and Life Cycle Assessment 311Joel Ann ToddLife Cycle Assessment in Product Innovation 329Nuno Da SilvaLife Cycle Assessment as a Tool in Food Waste Reduction and Packaging Optimization - Packaging Innovation and Optimization in a Life Cycle Perspective 345Ole Jörgen Haussen, Hanne Moller, Erik Svanes and Vibeke SchakendaIntegration of LCA and Life-Cycle Thinking within the Themes of Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 369Shawn Hunter, Richard Helling and Dawn ShiangPart 3: LCA Supports Decision Making and Sustainability18 How to Approach the Assessment? 391Jose Potting, Shabbtr Gheewala, Sebastten Bonnet and Joost van Buuren19 Integration of MCDA Tools in Valuation of Comparative Life Cycle Assessment 413Valenttna Prado, Kristen Rogers and Thomas P. Seager PhDSocial Life Cycle Assessment: A Technique Providing a New Wealth of Information to Inform Sustainability-Related Decision Making 433Catherine Benott NorrisLife Cycle Sustainability Analysis 453Alessandra Zamagni, Jeroen Guinee, Reinout Hetjungs and Paolo Masoni22 Environmental Product Claims and Life Cycle Assessment 475Martha J. Stevenson and Wesley W. IngwersenPart 4: Operationalizing LCA23 Building Capacity for Life Cycle Assessment in Developing Countries 545Prof. Toolseeram RamjeawonEnvironmental Accountability: A New Paradigm for World Trade is Emerging 563Ann K. NgoLife Cycle Knowledge Informs Greener Products 585James FavaIndex 597

“My overall impression of the book is that of a rich source of LCA information offered by a large group of LCA experts in their respective fields.”  (Int J Life Cycle Assess, 13 March 2014)