LCA Software Guide SR25/2005

Market Overview – Software Portraits

Based on many years of practical experience and methodological development (including SETAC Guides and ISO standards), LCA has developed into a well-established scientific and technical tool. Practitioners in Companies, consultancies and universities regularly work on product, process or company and process chain assessment and improvement. While in some instances, standard software such as MS Excel or company specific software will be used, many, or possibly most, practitioners also use dedicated LCA software.

This Guide provides a detailed global overview of today’s software for product life cycle assessment (LCA) and company ecobalance. It contains information on 28 software packages and 9 databases. The Guide aims at helping the practitioner to identify appropriate software for their use and provide LCA specialists with an insight into the recent development of this market.

This 2005 edition is the third edition following 1995 and 1997 and maintains a similar structure.

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