This course, Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment, introduces the methodology to analyse the environmental burdens of product and service systems.
Impact Assessment
Full Code
SUS0101225
Module Type
E-learning
Description
The impact assessment phase of life cycle assessment takes the data generated in the inventory phase, which may be thousands of data points, and applies a methodology to assess potential environmental burdens.
The steps involved include classification and characterisation. The inventory analysis data is assigned to impact categories in classification while characterisation involves applying a chosen methodology to generate a common equivalence for each impact category.
After impact assessment, the thousands of inventory data points are reduced to several impact category results.
What you will learn
- Recognise input/output data from inventory analysis is used in impact assessment; and
- Identify examples of impact categories and how data is used to generate a result through classification and characterisation.
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