Life-cycle assessment

1 Goals and purpose

• 2 Four main phases
  • 2.1 Goal and scope
  • 2.2 Life cycle inventory
  • 2.3 Life cycle impact assessment
  • 2.4 Interpretation
    • 2.4.1 Reference test
• 3 LCA uses
• 4 Data analysis
• 5 Variants
  • 5.1 Cradle-to-grave
  • 5.2 Cradle-to-gate
  • 5.3 Cradle-to-cradle or open loop production
  • 5.4 Gate-to-gate
  • 5.5 Well-to-wheel
  • 5.6 Economic input–output life cycle assessment
  • 5.7 Ecologically based LCA
• 6 Life cycle energy analysis
  • 6.1 Energy production
  • 6.2 Energy recovery
  • 6.3 Criticism
• 7 Critiques
  • 7.1 Dynamic life cycle assessment
• 8 See also
• 9 References
• 10 Further reading
• 11 External links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_assessment